In order to reduce the number of streetkids, the government should make sure that primary education was universal and that also that children’s rights were respected.
“This year’s theme for the Day of the African Child invokes anger as we look in to circumstances surrounding street children. Our streets in the central business district are packed with miserable children, who deserve shelter and parental care, which they cannot get.
“Some of them wish to be in schools like any other normal children but they are not. Everyone has at least met a street child and the question is: what are we doing to help their plight,?” asked Solomon Madzore, chairperson of the Assembly, “It is not pointing a finger on the government Due to economic hardships many children in the streets resort to vice and are consequently stereotyped as social misfits who are beyond rehabilitation and can therefore not be integrated into society.
neither is it targeting the donor community – but it challenges all of us to stand in solidarity with this vulnerable group. We need to join hands and make lasting contributions to the plight of street children,” he said.
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