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I thought we could use the following info as an introduction. If you want you can make some changes or recommendations. (I got my Ideas and most of the information in some web pages we used in Angela´s house and part of my info)please add info. This are the links I used:

Over 771 million adult people world wide do not have the basic knowledge in reading, writing and calculation. 200 million children around the world live or work in the streets, which is more than the population of France and Britain joined. In South America, at least 40 million children live on the street, in Asia 25 million and in Europe about another 25 million children and young children living on the streets. In 2020, there will be around 800 million of children in the street. In conclusion, this is a great global problem, but it is not only around the world, it is also as a local level (in Cali). This problem concerns us all.  As a local ploblem, here in Cali there are 1,200 children have received care and attention is given on average 120 people in (Hogares de Paso).In this places they take care of them giving them food, psychotherapeutic assistance, workshops, training, artistic and cultural activities.

Exist 4.457 children that live in the 16 main street of Colombia that are mostly ill drug addict and victims of sexual abuse. In the street there are 1.794 adolescents between the ages of 15-17 years, and the majority of women is between the 10 and 14 years old. There are multiples reasons why children in the street and some are - physical and psychological abuse from their parents - the economic resources Cali has the third place of children in the street in Colombia, the children need to realize danger acrobatics and risk their life asking for alms.

What is a street child with no education? UNICEF defines street children in different ways: 

1) Street children with no education : Children who have to work on the streets because their families need money to survive.

2) Street Children with out education: Children from poor families who sleep in the streets.  Some go to the city of areas of the country, others have fled.

3) Street children with out education: orphans and abandoned children whose parents have died of disease or because of war, or for which it was impossible to care for their children.

What are the Street Children with no education? The street children not only stay in the streets with nothing to do. To survive, most work over ten hours a day. They work in many was, such as: giving out newspapers, cleaning cars, collect scrap, guard parked cars, sell candies or begging. Some work as prostitutes, as domestic servants or in agriculture. There is also “Exploitation” by their families, they send them to streets to work and get the money the children earned with they work.

Why are there street children with out education? They can be many reason of: why are there children in the streets, such as: • Social disasters (corruption, mismanagement of resources) • political disasters (war, civil conflict, ethnic conflict) • Natural disasters (famine, floods, earthquakes) • family breakdown (Loss of moral and family values) • economic collapse (loss of home, parents, family, education) • Poverty • Unemployment • Migration from rural to urban  • Abandonment of child • Child abuse (children who sleep at home, that escape, are abandoned) • Children working

BY:NICOLAS AVILA And Angelica.....19/may/2010 pages. [] [] [] [] [] []