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Item The Condition of Street Children in Nepal (A Case Study of Chabahil Area of Kathmandu District)(Department of Sociology, 2012) Shrestha, HarishChildren who are neglected, abandoned or orphaned and either beg or collect and sell recyclable goods or work in other similar types of informal sector, and live in streets are called street children. They are usually violated and their rights are often neglected and they are not taken care of in any aspect of their life. They are isolated from the family and society. Therefore, the problem of street children is really a big one in many parts of the world. Nepal, especially Kathmandu is not an exception to this problem. Hundreds of innocent children are seen dwelling on the streets of Kathmandu city. They live in streets, sell recyclable goods and make the provision for food. No one cares about their education, health, shelter, food and other basic needs. This study is an attempt to assess the condition of these street children. The main objective of the study is to find out the socio-economic status of street children in Chabahil area of Kathmandu metropolitan city. For the study, asemi structured questionnaires, observation check list, formal and informal interviews and case study were used as the techniques to obtain required in formation in order to fulfill the objectives. The study covered 20 street children, out of whom 18 were boys and 2 girls selected from different surrounding areas of Chabahil of Kathmandu Metropolitan City by using judgmental sampling. The study found that one-third of the children had left their home due to maltreatment/abuse as a major cause and the minority of then left their home due to expectation of better life, influence by others, poverty, conflict and death of parents. Out of total sampled children most of them were literate, where as parents of only 25 percent of them were reported to be illiterate. A large proportion of the children responded that they didnot have an experience of primary level education. Some of them had completed primary level and some had dropped out already. The places of origin of street children were very.However, many of them were from the periphery of Kathmandu valley. Street v children who dwell in Kathmadu were of various caste and ethnic background like-Chhetri, Brahmin, Rai, Lama, Tamang, Chaudhari, Madhesi, Magar,Damai. Of the 20 respondents, 35 percent respondents were rag pickers.Similarly, 30percent of the children were found to be beggars and a small number of the children had adopted other occupations. Half of the total children understudy earned sufficient income for their daily food, but they spent most part of their income in watching movies, drinking alcohol, sniffing glue/gum and smoking cigarettes. The study has also covered such aspects as the street children's age structure,reasons for not joining school, parents being alive or dead, parental education and occupation and the children's future aspiration, reasons for the leaving previous work, their harassment, and exploitation by others and such other facts. Overall, the situation of street children was found to be very vulnerable,this is why, some practical recommendations have been presented so that consideration of these would lead to improvements in the existing situation.Item "Situation of Street Children" A Case Study of Kathmandu Metropolitan City(Faculty of Sociology, 2014) Adhikari, ApsaraNot availableItem Socio-Economic Condition of Street Children A Sociological Study on Street Children in Kathmandu Metropolitan City(Faculty of Sociology, 2012) Khanal, RudraNot availableItem Socio-economic condition of street children in Nepal (A case study of Putalisadak area, Kathmandu)(Department of Rural Development, 2010) Bhatta Kshetri, DeepakThis thesis entitled "Socio-Economic Condition of Street Children in Nepal (A Case Study of Putalisadak Area, Kathmandu)" deals with the problem of street children which is relatively new topic. Therefore, the research topic entitled "Situation analysis of street children in Kathmandu, Putalisadak Area" provides information about causes of being street children, and how they have learned to survive in the street with their problems. It is believed that this study will make people aware about the problems of our society. The study here tries to analyze why such children are being forced to be in the street. Is this only of the family problems such as their economic status or there are other driving forces such as political, social etc. These children are thought to be the backbone of nation and nation builder and thus it has its own importance to uplift them either by providing opportunity or at least start to decrease the street child numbers. The main objectives of the study are to analyze the situation of street children and to identify their problems and needs. The proposed study is conducted on following specific objectives. To make a situation analysis of street children in the study area. To find out problems faced by street children. To find out the causes of being street children. To investigate, how the street children learn to survive in the street. An analysis of street children purposively is of Kathmandu, Putalisadak. In course of doing purposive sampling the researcher has found 40 numbers of street children in the study area. So, the number of respondents of this study has become 40 street children taken from Putalisadak area through the purposive sampling survey method. The major problems analyzed by studying the issues of street children are problem of lodging and fooding, problem of torture from the police, problem of gang fight, health problem, clothing problem, economic problem, unnecessary blaming problem, insulted and hatred from different sectors people, etc.Item Socio-economic determinants of street children (A case study in Kathmandu metropolitan city)(Department of Sociology, 2016) Chaudhary, Phiroj KumarNot availableItem Socio-Economic Status of Street Children (A Case Study of Pokhara)(Faculty of Economics, 2013) Baral, Chandra KalaThe study entitled “Socio-economic Status of Street Children: A Case Study of Pokhara” was conducted in Pokhara city during 2012-2013 to find out the causes and consequences of the street children as well as their socio-economic status. The explanatory research method was applied to investigate the minimum acquaintance about street children and similarly the descriptive method was employed to identify the major problems associated with them. Out of 74 street children 50 were used in the study by snowball technique. Most of the children were of about age range of 10-12 years. Among them 54, 26 and 20 percent were from Dalit, Janajaties and Upper caste, respectively. Sixty six percent of children were literate and 34 percent never attended school. Reasons behind not attending school were lack of awareness, lack of support from guardian, poor economy and lack of interest on themselves. Factors that forced the children to leave their home was maltreatment by family members, expectation of better life, pressure of work at home, poor economic status of the family and breakdown of their family due to second marriage either from father or mother or early death of both parents. Education status of street children was very bad. Health status of street children was also very fragile as they didn’t get hygienic food to eat. In the study area majority of street children were street rag-pickers, beggar and load carrier. They earned nominal amount of money and only few of them saved their earning. Fifty four percent of the respondents have saving habits. They spend their earning for food, alcohol, cigarette and habitual dendrite sniffing. Circumstances and problems faced by street children were mistreatment of police, and stealing of goods and belongings. Major dreams of the respondents were to become drivers, mechanics, social workers, soldiers and police. Street life of children is full of trouble, challenge, complexity and hardships. Every day they did fight with the hurdles, obstacles and risky circumstances. From this study it is suggested that the government agencies, NGOs, INGOs and local communities should focus their immediate attention on the causes and consequences of street children and suggest their permanent way out.Item Socio-economic status of street children (A case study of Pokhara Valley)(Department of Sociology, 2011) Shrestha, KritiThe objective of this study is to explore the socio-economic status of street children in Pokhara valley with the specific objectives: to examine the overall status of street children in Pokhara in terms of their access to education, health and their lifestyle; to explore the factors pushing children on the street and to access the nature and magnitude of the problems of street children. Finally their socio-economic status is examined in the light of the indicators of the conceptual framework drawn in the study. The exploratory research method is applied to explore the various aspects and variables of the topic of the study and similarly, the descriptive and quantitative methods are employed to describe and generalize the socio-economic status of the street children and possible opportunities to enhance their quality of life in all aspects. There are 262 street children in Pokhara. Among them 50 street children are taken for the study as a sample on the basis of convenience and random sampling method. The results of the study are that most of the children are 13-15 in age and 58% of children are from dalit community and 72 % Hindu and 18% Christian and only 18% Buddhist. From the study we found that 88% of street children are literate but nobody had completed even primary education. The main reasons behind not completing even primary level of education are lack of interest and run away from home. It has been deduced that 66% of children of children are giving importance to their health. 68% of children have a habit of taking bath once a week. Likewise, 84% of children don't have a habit of brushing whereas 90% of children have a habit of hand washing before having meal. From the study we deduce most of the children leave home due to poverty, lack of love and affection and having companion with street boys. Children are bound to come to the street despite living in small family. Most of the street children are in the occupation of street rag-picking, begging, working in hotel restaurant and vehicle cleaner etc and their average income is Rs 100 per day. Though they earn very nominal amount of money some of them use to save their earning as well. 24% of the respondents have a saving habit. All of them spend their earning for food and cigarette/alcohol and most of them are habitual with dendrite sniffing which needs to be minimized giving them other opportunity or engaged them in other creative activities. As street children have spent their life in street and they have to go through different circumstances and problems. They use to make different places as their shelter. Significant street children use to sleep in front of shop and with friends. They feel cold in the winter season as they don’t have proper bed to sleep. Most of the street children feel problem of rain and coldness in their residency, mistreated by police and problem of things get stolen at the place of residence. This can prove that they don't have safe and secure place to sleep and life is very sturdy and painful for them. There is no arrangement from the government to improve their sleeping condition. The main problem of street children that they (38%) are facing in their daily life is about safe accommodation. Likewise, 26% have a problem of shortage of healthy and hygienic food, 24% have a problem of poor sanitation and 12% have problem of abuse and violence. Street children and their family have an effect of culture of poverty. 66% of street children have an effect of culture of poverty, 30% do not realise culture of poverty in their family and 4% have no idea about it. Even if the street children live in street, but they also have their own future plans. From the study we find that 46% street children want to give up living in the street whereas 54% want to stay on the street as they get free life despite various problems that they have to face in daily basis. 28% of street children want to become a driver in future followed by 18% who want to become rich people, 14% want to be an educated person, 12% want to be a hotel owner. Saving habit may lead them to get success in their future goal. From the study, it is explored that street life is full of problems, challenges, difficulties and hardships. Every-day they have to fight with the hurdles, obstacles and risky circumstances in the street. The main factors that force children to leave home is the influence of the peers that children who have lived and worked in the city influencing their peers in their rural homes, poor economic situation of the family, change in family structure and social relations, and attraction towards city life. Once children come to the street they don’t want to return home as they don’t want to lose freedom. Education status of street children is very worse. Some of the children have never been to school even if the government has its policy of free education up to secondary level. Health status of the street children is also very fragile as they don’t get hygienic food to eat. They also don't give preference to their own cleanliness.Item A Socio-Economic Study of Street Children in Nepal (Case Study of Kalanki Area)(Department of Economics, 2007) Dahal, Netra KalaNot AvailableItem Struggle for Survival by Street Children (A Sociological Study of Street Children of Kathmandu, Thamel Area)(Department of Sociology, 2019) Rai, PriteeNot availableItem A Study on Socio-Economic Condition of Street Children (A Case Study of Kalanki Area) Kathmandu, Nepal(Department of Rural Development, 2009) Shrestha, SarojaneeThe problem of street children is universal phenomenon. It is comparatively very high in those countries where there is rapid growth of urbanization. The number of street children has grown in recent decades because of widespread recession, political turmoil, civil unrest, increasing family disintegration, natural disaster, and growing urbanization. The street children could be orphaned or abandoned children or simply neglected or runways. They could be with or without family. They are also termed as community children. Because of the various reasons such as family causes, social causes, economic causes, political causes that force them to be in the street. Many social organizations and service centers are mushrooming throughout the country with a motto to support needy street children. However, we cannot see much change brought to the lives of these street children. There is a lack of coordinated and concentrated effort to address this problem collectively. Because of the lack of street child legislation it is extremely difficult to monitor the performance of such centers and government organizations. During the research, 50 samples from Kalanki were taken along with semi observation technique to acquire relevant information and data. Secondary data from social workers and NGOs are used significantly. Majority of the street children aged between 9 to 13 years are migrating to Kathmandu for survival and being street children. The highest number of the street children are from the caste of Brahmin/Chhetri. And rest of the children from dalit castes like Kami, Damai, Sarki and Nepali.The literacy status of the respondents is low. Most of them dropped out school due to economic crisis in family and not paid school fee. Many children do have homes and parents. Even do, they are in the street because most of the parents are alcoholic, economic crisis in family, for searching jobs in Kathmandu, city attraction from their friends, etc. It is observed that extreme household poverty is the contributing factor for migration of children and engaging in street work. In addition, alcoholic father and abusive behaviour of step parents and not sending their children school are the important reasons of children leaving home. Influenced by others is another significant reason given by children for leaving home.Street children are involved in different economic activities such as ragpicking, begging, hotel, tempo/micro bus conductor, domestic work, street vender, tourist guide, etc. These are the main occupations of street children. Those children who feel bad with their jobs, they get inhuman treatment from their employers and have not secure in the street. Being risky and hazardous work for children they encounter with various injuries/accidents and illness during working period. But, they are not provided medical expenses. On the other hand, they are extremely harassed and abused by adults. Mostly they use drugs just for relax. They need more freedom and forget any kind of problem. But some children use drugs for killing sadness and fear. They use when they have to involve in crime, stealing and pick pocketing jobs. Almost all children want to leave drugs to fulfill their future plan and for betterment of their life.Item A study on the street children of Pokhara Sub-metropolitan City(Department of Sociology, 2012) Bhattarai (Tiwari), IndiraAvailable with full text