NCERT Beehive Project

1. HOMELESSNESS IN
WORLD
BASED ON Q Ⅱ.3 FROM BEEHIVE TEXTBOOK UNIT 3 POEM-RAIN ON THE ROOF

2. Not everyone is so fortunate to have a cosy bed to lie on or a shelter in the rainy
seasons.There are many peoples and animals who tremble under the dark sky in the rainy
days.Homelessness is a major issue in many countries in the world including India.

3. It is estimated that 150 million people are homeless worldwide and 1.77 million people are
homeless in India consisting of men, women,children, the elderly, and the disabled.

5. Many people stay/live on pavements, roadsides, railway platforms, staircases, temples,
streets, in pipes, or other open spaces.They don’t have even bed sheet, what to talk of
comfortable beds.

6. About 78 million people in India live in slums and tenements.17% of the world's slum
dwellers reside in India.Subsequent to the release of Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, Mumbai
was a slum tourist destination for slumming where homeless people and slum dwellers
alike could be openly viewed by tourists.

7. Homelessness is in part a direct result of families migrating from rural to urban cities and
urbanization.Migration to urban areas can occur for a variety of reasons ranging from loss of
land, need for sustainable employment, lack of clean water and other resources, and in some
cases like the Bargi Dam Project, loss of all property and complete displacement.Once
reaching cities, homeless attempt to create shelters out of tin, cardboard, wood, and plastic.
Slums can provide an escape, yet individuals often cannot afford them.Individuals
experiencing homelessness may experience abuse, maltreatment, and lack of access to
schools and healthcare.Some other problems leading to homelessness include: disability
(either mental, physical, or both), lack of affordable housing , unemployment (either seasonal
or through economic hardships), and changes in industry.Desertion of the old, mentally ill,
unmarried pregnant women, helpless divorced women and girl children also are some of the
main causes of homelessness in India.

8. Homelesness is also caused due to global warming and natural calamities like floods,
cyclones, etc.

9. Street children fall under the broader category of children in especially difficult circumstances, and are considered the
most threatened of all children in CEDC. It is estimated that there are more than 400,000 street children in India.
According to UNICEF, street children can be broken up into four sections: at-risk children who live with family but work on
the streets for income, children who primarily stay on the street but have some residence with family, children who spend
most of their lives on the street and do not live with or contact family, and finally abandoned children who are on their own
with no adult figures.Children flee homes of poverty, violence, oppression and exploitation and eventually reside on the
streets.Children are often privy to exploitation and physical and mental abuse due to familial stress, depression, and
excessive alcohol use.When they run away from their families to find a better life, children face prostitution and physical
labor.Children as young as 6 sift through garbage seeking money to buy food. Furthermore, children live on the streets as a
result of urbanization, poverty, unemployment, alcoholic families, death of parents, bad relationships with new parents, and
drug use.Street children often have bad performance and behavior issues in school and may eventually drop out, leading to
low literacy. They are stripped of their right to education and recreation.This ties into a cycle perpetuating poverty and
homelessness.Street children have more physical and mental health issues than non-street children.Assuming children will
ask for bribes, hospitals abstain services, increase prices, or refuse them proper care.These issues can cause street
children to become depressed or antisocial with negative approaches to life.Street children suffer from multiple forms of
abuse.Most experience verbal and psychological abuse, some experience general abuse and neglect, fewer suffer from
health abuse, and a small number from physical (including sexual) abuse.

10. Homelessness and poverty are the main causes of child labor in India. Census 2011 reported
that there nearly 43.5 lakh children aged 5–14 years work to support themselves and their
families. According to UNICEF, nearly 12% of all of India's children are laborers. In many
cases, poor parents have no choice but to send their children to work in unsafe and hazardous
conditions.

11. CHILD LABOUR

12. One challenge the homeless face is the inaccessibility to shelters. Although shelters are available for the homeless in
certain cities, many homeless people choose to not utilize them and live on the streets instead due to various
different reasons. One reason is that homeless individuals who are affected by mobility issues cannot access them
and are unsure about how shelters function. Another is that sometimes shelters are located in unreachable areas and
have “camouflaged architecture and poor layouts of the interiors”. Shelters often lack funding and resources to make
them more attractive for the homeless population. Shelters also demand a small fee per night, immediately rendering
them inaccessible for many homeless. The homeless may view shelters as crowded spaces with poor sanitation where
drug addicts and thieves may also take refuge. Sometimes shelters do not allow individuals to bring personal
belongings with them which is another factor that discourages homeless individuals from using the shelters.
Furthermore, shelter officials, managers, and caretakers are not incentivized to keep the shelters clean and
welcoming. Temporary shelters also run the risk of being demolished and often force the homeless to change location
of stay.Another challenge faced by the homeless is exposure to extreme weather in summer and winter. A study found
that between January 2005 and December 2009, seven homeless individuals passed away every day in Delhi. Their
deaths were not recorded by the police and they also did not receive a funeral. Homeless people also suffer from bad
health and extremely limited access to medical facilities. Some of the reasons include: lack of proper identity
documents required by medical facilities, cost, and inclination of health care providers to outright reject them. In
2010, the UNDP India conducted a survey that found that only about 3% of the homeless people possessed a voter ID
or ration card.

13. An increasing number of migrants looking for employment and better living standards are quickly
joining India's homeless population.Although non-governmental organisations are helping to relieve the
homelessness crisis in India, these organisation are not enough to solve the entire problem. Attempts at
gentrifying India's problematic neighbourhoods is also bringing homelessness levels up.
SHELTER FOR
HOMELESS

14. Animal Homelessness is also a major issue.Deforestation and Irresponsible Ownership are some of the
causes of animal extinction and homelessness.The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation
has resulted in habitat damage, biodiversity loss, and aridity. Deforestation causes extinction,
changes to climatic conditions, desertification, and displacement of populations, as observed by
current conditions and in the past through the fossil record.Due to deforestation, many wild animal
and bird species are entering the urban areas, and are killed by peoples or captured and kept in zoo’s
instead of sending them to reserves and forests.And for domestic animals or pets,they are either
living on streets or are getting captured by animal controls and are killed.Some street animals get
infected from diseases and die.Millions of animals every year become homeless because of variables
often out of their control: financial troubles, lack of interest, a heavy bias towards pure-breed dogs by
shoppers, irresponsible owners not spaying and neutering their pets.Many animals enter animal
shelters worldwide every year. Of those, approximately most are dogs and cats.Every day, many
animals are killed in shelters simply because they lack of space and adopters.Many pets are either
strays on the streets or homeless in shelters. Animal homelessness has been a worldwide issue, but
many do not really seem to care about it. It has been a big problem for many decades, and if it doesn’t
get the needed help from our community, it will continue to grow, so it needs to stop.

15. WILD
ANIMALS
IN
STREETS
AND
URBAN
AREAS

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