Let The Children Live!

Life in its fullness for children in Colombia

  • Contact us
  • Latest News
    • Updates
  • Donate
  • Online Shop
    • Checkout
    • Shopping Cart
    • Your Orders

Street Children

Who Are The Street-Children?

When talking about street-children in Colombia it is important to understand the different groupings of children to be found in the street. For all street-children the street, rather than the home or the school, has become the centre of their lives. Although their individual circumstances may be very different they may be divided into three main groups:

Street-working children:

These children come from poor families who have to send them out to work to earn the money they need in order to survive. They may sell such things as sweets, cigarettes, fruit, flowers, or drinks. They may clean car windscreens at traffic lights, or juggle or even sing on buses.

Late at night they return to their homes in the shanty-towns. These form the largest group of street-children. Many of them will eventually drift into life in the street full-time if no one intervenes to offer them an alternative. 

Children in the street:

These children tend to come from even poorer families, and they have nothing to sell. They spend the day in the street begging, sorting through rubbish and playing around, but they also have some sort of homes and they usually sleep there. However, they too are in danger of breaking the ties with their home and moving to live full-time in the street unless they are offered an alternative.

Children of the street:

These are the children who actually live in the street. They also beg but they are likely to get involved in stealing, glue sniffing, drug taking, prostitution and crime. They normally sleep in the street, but some of them have homes to which they may return occasionally. These three groups are not clearly defined and children may move from one group to the other. New children come onto the streets in one way or another every day, whilst others may go home, come into care, or “disappear”.

 

Extract from our  CD, PASABOCAS. Click on the arrow at the left.

https://letthechildrenlive.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/06-La-Chicha-de-Maíz-copy.m4a

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

  • Welcome!
  • Who we are
  • What do we do?
  • Street Children
    • The Shanty -Towns
  • Why the Problem
  • Life on the Streets
  • Funvini
    • Casa Walsingham
    • The St John Bosco Group.
    • Street-Working Children
    • Niquitao
    • The Choir~~Cor Videns
    • The Maria Goretti Group
    • Casa Bannatyne
    • The Holy House School
    • Extensión/Proyección
    • Spiritual and pastoral
    • Christmas
    • The Unexpected
  • Music, photos and videos for you to enjoy.
  • Beautiful Colombia
  • Newsletter/Update
  • Resources
    • Street-Life Game
  • Make a Donation
  • Christmas Cards
  • Online Shop
  • Downloads
  • Events 2019
  • Links
  • How You Can Help
    • Our shop in Walsingham
  • Meet Our UK Staff
  • Contact us
  • Smart Text Giving
  • Event Locations
  • Event Categories
  • My Bookings
  • Our US Site

Donate to Let The Children Live!

Click on the Enthuse (formerly Charity Checkout) button below to donate to Let The Children Live!

'Checkout'
Powered by Donation Can.

Copyright © 2017 - Let The Children Live - All Rights Reserved

Let The Children Live! respects the privacy of visitors to this site. Therefore the only ‘cookies’ used here are strictly functional. They are required to enable the site to work properly, and they will not persist on visitors’ computers when their current browsing session ends