An estimated 1.5 million children are on the streets of Pakistan's major cities and urban centers, constituting the country's largest and most ostracised social group. These include 'runaway' children who live or work on the street, as well as the minority that return to their families at the end of the day with their meager earnings. Domestic violence, unemployment, natural disasters, and poverty are considered the major factors behind the increase in the number of street children.
Other factors include unprecedented global industrialization, unplanned and rapid urbanization, family disintegration and lack of education. The problem has been further exacerbated in the wake of devastating floods that ravaged parts of Sindh, KPK and Balochistan.
On the Other Hand, there are an estimated 3.7 million children between the ages of 10-17 in the workforce. Of these, 1.64 million are engaged in hazardous work with earning as little as 50 cent for 12 hour work.
Children are also being used for begging and stealing, these children are also transported to other parts of the country. Some are even smuggled abroad, mostly to Iran & gulf.
It is my mission that i will provide them good education, training in the field of Computer and Information technology so that instead of long traditional education, they can start earning as they cross teen age.
About 25,000 children daily defy the weather and physical restraints and wander on Karachi's roads to sell tissue papers, clean windscreens or just knock on car windows begging
Street children are vulnerable to sexual abuse on a daily basis.
Only eight percent of children living on the streets in Pakistan are female. Most of them are picked up when they arrive on the streets and then sold off into prostitution for about Rs 25,000 each ($250)
Apart from a huge number of Afghan migrants, about 45 percent of street children in Pakistan are Myanmarese and Bengalis, with those communities having 58 settlements in Karachi alone
There is no law against internal trafficking in Pakistan, as children from the north often end up in Pakistan’s metropolises.
(Courtesy: Al-JAZEERA)
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