The worst sin towards
our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them;
that is the essence of inhumanity.
--From
The Devil's Disciple by George Bernard Shaw--
The United Nations estimates the population of street children worldwide
at nearly 200 million, with the number rising daily. These young people
are more appropriately known as community children, as they are the offspring
of our communal world. Ranging in age from three to eighteen, about 40 percent
of those are homeless--as a percentage of world population, unprecendented
in the history of civilization. The other 60 percent work on the streets
to support their families. They are unable to attend school and are considered
to live in "especially difficult circumstances." Increasingly, these children
are the defenseless victims of brutal violence, sexual exploitation, abject
neglect, chemical addiction, and human rights violations. |
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