Who Are the Street Children?
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Street children are those children who, when they experience
family problems, hunger, neglect and domestic violence, escape from their homes
and live part–time on the streets. When they are settled and know street
survival techniques, they return at times to their hovels and shacks to visit
their families and bring food for their younger brothers and sisters. When they
see that the food they bring is not enough, they return to the street and their
brothers and sisters sometimes follow them, looking for the source of the food.
Parents at times send them out to beg and scavenge and even
prostitute them or sell them in to bonded labor. We cannot forget the children
born of teenage street children and aborted in back street clinics.
Other street children are child workers, permanently on the
streets and engaged in scavenging, child labor, begging, peddling drugs and
petty theft. Many end up in jail. Their rights are frequently abused by the
police while on the streets. The girls are sometimes raped in custody and
forced to hand over their daily earnings.
Others are accused falsely for crimes committed by street
children who have been recruited into gangs controlled and protected by the
police. The gangs of street children prey on the younger and weaker children
and sometimes make them sex slaves, using drugs, food and fear to control and
dominate them. The street children are trained to be drug couriers. Although
innocent, the younger and unprotected can suffer untold abuse by the other
street youth. When in the jails, they can be mixed with criminals, rapists and
pedophiles.
They are runaways from dysfunctional, broken homes with an
abusive parent. In the home, usually a hovel and poor environment beside a
polluted canal or malarial swamp, they suffer sexual abuse, rape, physical
abuse, verbal battering, rejection, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and dengue.
Most street children are illiterate. Having no incentive,
money or support and encouragement to study, they have dropped out of
elementary school. They join street gangs for their own protection and use
industrial glue as a mind– and mood–altering tranquilizer. They work selling
plastic bags, newspapers and flowers or begging for a syndicate. Many are
controlled by pimps and sold to sex tourists on street corners or brought to
the casa, a house of prostitution. Street children are the poorest of the poor;
they are the most vulnerable and weakest and unless they are helped they will
be the HIV/AIDS victims of the future. They are forced to be child prostitutes
that attract foreign sex tourists. They are susceptible to becoming criminals
or even terrorists angry at the adult world that gave them life in the worst
misery imaginable. The adult world has done this to the children.
The secular agencies are going to these children with great
financial support. They are doing a good work as far as in the physical realm
in meeting those needs. But what about these children's eternal souls? Where
will they spend eternity after they die? We the Church have to get to them and
not only meet their physical needs but even more important their need for, a
Savior, Jesus Christ. Only Jesus can break the cycle of generational poverty.
He can not only save a lost soul but give His children, those who come to Him
a whole new life and a chance to live it outside of starvation, sickness,
oppression and death.
This is for real and what are we going to do about
it?
Will you help me to go and be Jesus with skin on to
strengthen the local churches and minister to these children?
I'm called to go and will go but I need your help.
God created me and anointed me for this and prepared me for 20 years.
Will you send me?
Will you be a, Fellow Worker For the Truth? 3 John 5-8
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