The street children--who cares ?

Hi, bhanusb! There's nothing sadder than this. We put money into all sorts of unnecessary things, like wars, but not into the development of these kids. As economic crises affect the whole world, the problem worsens. While many of us give all the money and tie we can to organizations who help these kids, it's never enough. Everyone needs to put more effort into people and let the rest wait!

I guess every country has these children, ours are mostly hidden. We try to use government programs to give them some education so that they will have better lives, but many are so afraid of the government that they don't take advantage. It may be the parents who are afraid that the government will come and take their children away. And this may be a justified fear. In a perfect world all our children would be well cared for and educated, but that just doesn't happen.

this is sad. my thing is dont know where you are from. but i am in the states and we hear about homeless child all the time. to me our goverment need not to worry so much about other countries when we have homeless kids here in our country. seeing young kids that are going hungry and people always say we need to feed people in africa or where ever. when in our back yard we have our own that need help to be fed and shelter

This breaks my heart to hear such things. Its not fair to me that some people in the world are rich and others are so poor that their children are sleeping in the street trying to make a buck. Why wouldn't one of the parents be on the street trying to sale flowers? Why would they let their young children do this? Please explain if you know. Thanks!

in my country this doesn't exist but i've seen it when i've worked abroad. it's sad and very unfair - i think possibly the only way to sort it is unemployment benefit for parents but poorer countries may not be able to afford that.

Poverty happens all over the world and as hard as it seems we see this poor poor children everyday. too bad our government can't handle all of these poor people because of lack of budget...and yes corruption too.

It must be hard on the little boy, but he persevere and still working under hot sun and he slept under hot sun must as a sign he is very tired. Whho can sleep under hot sun on a road island. To have that kind of will is really amazing. Its difficult to see that kind of person or kid nowadays. Many kids today are spoiled and even little hardship they unable to face it.

this is so sad all over the world there are homeless kids and people the govonment makes my sick sometimes how come we can spend money on a war that we don't need but they don't spend money on people that need it that makes no secens.

this is sad.almost all countries in the world have this problem.I guess this can be solved when the government and the couples work hand in hand.the government can implement more sincere programs for scholarship as well as feeding programs for these children.the couples should cooperate and plan their family accordingly.in my country,most of these children lives in a family with 8 other siblings,and their parents doesn't have any decent income to support them.if the couple decided to have only 2 kids,their budget would have fit their family and their life would be much easier.it's odd,because rich families who can support 10 children have only 2 or 3 children in their family.while those who have low income,they tend to have 6 or more.

That is very sad. Where was this? I hate to see such poverty in the world. It touches my heart. Where were the parents and were they working as hard as the poor little boy? Makes you want to take them all home with you.

Honesly speaking, I believe that this should be the job of the government. Social services should be doing their job and not let the children wander. Since most of them are abandoned by their parents, responsibilities fall on the government. There are some good samaritans that take them under their care. There are some bad people that use these children for their gain. It happens in this country and it is the sad plight of the poor.

Thats were sad to hear we always say this statement, but have we ever tried helping that those guys who are in the road. There are many people who help those poor guys out in the road but they dont mention it or brag it, you said that who cares but did u care for him, tried buying a flower, if yes then thats why we can do help them if we can and we should also thank god that we have atleast a house and food to eat and help those who are not able too.

In India, there are several institutions work for street children. They are are NGOs. They change their life. But parent or their owners wants money from them, so they work in hot son bare foot.

Every time I saw some street children I will always thank God how lucky I am I have never been like them. And come to think of it, how the government didn't see the situation of this young and innocent children. How I wish our government do their duties to protect them.