Introduction:
Everybody has some ideas about the street children of Bangladesh. Every child is lucky enough those who live in a good home and received a good education from his family but many children of our country those have no such opportunity. Street children of Dhaka city lead very measurable life and the real picture of these street children is very pathetic. The rate of street children is increasing day by day. They have no particular living or sleeping place they sleep on the street. They are being depriving from food, education, shelter and other kinds of opportunity. Some of them don't have any income source. Sometimes they beg on the street they can do any kinds of bad job instead of money. The street children are also known as “Toaki”, “Pissi” etc. In recent years it has become a tremendous social problem in our country. UNICEF defines street children as, “those who are of the street and on the street.” In this study, the term street children refers to those children of 5 to 15 years of age who earn their living on the city streets and stay there for most of the day. The major problems of street children are: Insecure life, physical and sexual abuse by adults of the immediate community, harassment by law enforcing agencies, inadequate, access to educational institutions and healthcare facilities. They cannot imagine how wills their next morning. The socio economic condition of street children is very bad.
Thesis Statement:
Our main target is to describe about the socio economical condition of street children and create consciousness among the all classes’ people about street children.
Who are street children?
Street children are a term used to refer to children who live on the streets of a city, deprived of family care and protection. Most children on the streets are between the ages of about 5 and 17 years old, and their population between different cities is varied. Street children live in junk