This document discusses a project to help homeless and street children around the world. It is led by Esran Mustafa and focuses on helping street children in Karachi, Pakistan and orphan children in Skopje, Macedonia. The team has spent 5 hours per day for 7 days working on this issue. There are estimated to be over 100 million children worldwide living on the streets who are vulnerable to various risks. The document outlines statistics on homeless children in different countries and regions. It discusses causes like AIDS, wars, economics and politics that contribute to increased numbers of abandoned and homeless children. Potential solutions suggested include volunteering, fundraising, and raising awareness about the issues facing homeless children.

1. Homelessness Children!
Project Status: CALL FOR ACTION!
Team Leader: ESRAN MUSTAFA
Impacted Youth: Street Children in Karachi, Pakistan and orphan
children in Skopje, Macedonia.
Team Mates: 2
Volunteer Hours Spend: 5 hours X 7 days
Impact: 11 children

2. Photos Captured by Team in Action

3. Working On Solution

4. Our Project
 100 million living in the street world wide!!!
 Vulnerable to victimization,
 Exploitation,
 Abused of their civil and economic rights
 What should we undertake by this?

5. Who are
Children over
considered the world
Homeless and
Around 1 million children on the
Street Children? 
streets of Egypt
 10-12.000 homeless children in
 ‘A Child of the Streets’ South Africa
11 million street children in India
‘A Child on the Street’

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 170.000 street children in
 ‘Part of a street family’ Indonesia
 1 to 2 million street-involved
 ‘In Institutionalized youth in USA
Care’

6. As a result of abandoned children
caused…
 AIDS epidemics
 Prostitution
 Civil war in Africa
 The effect of politics, economics, social crises
 90% of street children use psychoactive
substances(medicines, alcohol, cigarettes, heroin, cannabis)
 Medical care!
 Inadequate living condition increase susceptibility to chronic illnesses
 The mental, social and emotional growth are affected by their nomadic
lifestyles …
 Security, protection, and hope
 More than anything else, they lack love!

7. Solution!
 Everyone of us to do at least something for every
street child the number of homeless children would be
reduced….
 Give your moral and financial support to these
children it would really make e big difference in their
life…
 Lets get all together and help this children, lets stop
this forever!

8. How to get Involved?
 By volunteering working in shelters and other area on your
country
 Participating in legislative efforts
 Funding the program that assist street children
 You can raise awareness of this issue by educating yourself,
your peers, colleagues, students, teachers, family members,
and others around you interested in this issue.

9. People already in action!
 Casa Alianza, active in Mexico and Central America;
 Child Hope in UK
 Butterflies, in New Delhi;
 Street Kids International, in Canada
 On a local and regional level, initiatives have been
taken to assist street children, often through shelters.

10. Team and Our Details
 Jehangir Khan(Student, NED
University, Pakistan)
 Esran Mustafa(Studying Bachelor of Business
Informatics at South East European
University, Skopje, Macedonia)

11. Refrences:
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0904-Homelessness.html
http://www.streetchildren.org.uk/_uploads/resources/Street_Children_St
ats_FINAL.pdf
http://jxb7076.hubpages.com/hub/Is-Anyone-Helping-The-Homeless-
Children
(Above links served as the resource of information. However, some of
pictures are taken from Google images, and international and local
NGO’s website/personal records has been used for collection of data
as to show and realize the world about this problem. All links can’t be
mentioned since on this project we did loads of searching and collecting
data from websites. Please notify us if you want to comment)