Breaking Vicious Cycle Of Street Life

As per the statistics of the Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN), there are 5,000 to 6,000 street children in Nepal. Of them, over 70 per cent are boys. Most of them are concentrated in urban centres like Kathmandu or Pokhara. It is estimated that Kathmandu alone hosts 1,500 to 2,000 street children. According to United Nations sources, there are 150 million street children all over the world. The factors behind a rise in such children are poverty, domestic violence by family members, especially step-parents, death of a parent, alcoholic abuse by family members, family breakdown, conflict, natural calamities, displacement and other factors such as peer pressure or attraction towards the glitter of cities.