(b) Where do they live?
(c) How do they earn their livelihood?
(d) How are they treated?
(e) How can we rehabilitate them?
The children who live in the street are called street children/urchin. They have to live under the open sky. They pass their nights on the footpaths, railway stations, bus stands and launch ghats. They move from one place to another place around the city in search of livelihood. They earn their livelihood by working hard. They have to carry loads, break bricks, sale flowers. They are treated harshly.
Most of them are forsaken by their parents. They are deprived of parental affection, care, and security. They are also deprived of education, healthcare and nutrition etc. In fact, they are a burden of the society and of the government. Therefore, it is our duty to rehabilitate them. We can rehabilitate them by collecting and sheltering them into vagrant houses or orphanages, by giving them vocational training and elementary education, by giving them small loans and by managing them self-employment.
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