1. Rise in street children of PAKISTAN ( By Nadeem Wagan)
Dear All
children are known as the purest form of human beingsAn estimated 1.2 million children are
on the streets of Pakistan's major cities and urban centres, constituting the country's largest
and most ostracised social group. These include 'Runaway' children who live or work on the
street, as well as the minority that return to their families at the end of the day with their
meagre earnings.
According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) survey, 72% of working
children do not have contact with their families and 10% have no knowledge of their families.
Children are turningto the streets amidst increasing poverty, unemployment, swelling family
size and social disintegration seen in abuse in schools, as well as domestic violence, neglect
and family breakdown,
“There is a lot of (international) funding for infrastructure like roads, but when it comes to
drugs, when it comes to street children and shelter homes, the funding is not there or it is
very small,”
Requested to you Government of Pakistan and INGOs to pay attention to issue of street
children in Pakistan so that this issue may controlled timely otherwise this issue will be
heinous not only for Pakistan but also for the whole world.