NAME: Francient Camposo YR.

& SEC: 11 -H3 Villegas

Lace Arcenas DATE: 09 – 10 – 19
Jane Claudine Celestial WORDS COUNT:364
Honeylen Del Castillo
Angel Mae Dehayco
Christine Athea Maquiller
INSTRUCTOR: Mrs. Mary Fair Ruval Ombina – Estrera
NAME OF ACTIVITY: Review of the Related Literature
STREET CHILDREN
Street children define homeless children where in they lived on their own and trying to be
independent on theirselves. A news article from sunstar ph of Basilan, R (2015) there is a shelter home
for these street children that lead by the Mayor of Mandaue City (2015) Jonas Cortes. The news article
talks about the street children guidance, street children taken, parenting seminar, and how it come
that their is home. The article shows also the requiring of parenting seminar, children taught hygiene,
education, and livelihood, also Mayor Jonas Cortes said in the article that he challenged the police and
social worker officials that children in the street will be kept. In this article shows the perseverance of
having a concern to the street children.

According to a web page article "Their World" were in the United Nation estimates that there
is a 150 million street children to our world, and still counting because of the no exact number. The
article also talks about the effect of being a street children, like exploitation abused, missed the
education, and escaping from their home. In article also shows to us that there 75%-90% of children
living in streets are boys. Therefore, there are a lot of street children boys in the world, because of
being rebel to their parents. Somehow to the other country there is equal of number of boys and girls.

“Any girl or boy who has not reached adulthood, for whom the street has become his or her
habitual abode and/or source of livelihood, and who is in inadequately protected, directed, and
supervised by responsible adults,” this is how NGO group at inter programme street children & youth,
(1983) were in it is a fact. The term street children can be problematic as it can be seen as a negative
label. This street children should be taken attention, also we should involve our selves into this.
REFERENCES:
https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/43802Y
https://theirworld.org/explainers/street-children