Meaningful Strategies that can Reform the Lives of Street Children | Chapter 3 | New Ideas Concerning Arts and Social Studies Vol. 3

Street children are habitually depicted in a purely negative manner, often described as indigent, penurious, and impecunious individuals who roam the streets in search of a livelihood. Many street children are denied basic human rights, including proper access to social and health services, the need for education, and protection against exploitation. Their world is demoralising, disheartening, disenchanting, and their future appears formidable and arduous as they are frequently rejected, scorned and despised by society. However, it's important to recognise that they are normal human beings who, due to challenging circumstances, find themselves homeless. Identifying a singular reason for their homelessness is complex. On the other hand, the majority of educators firmly believe that fostering inclusive education is obligatory. This review mainly focuses on analysing the strategies that can reform the lives of Street Children. This paper does not cast aspersions but seeks to ascertain whether some of these children can be rehabilitated through inclusive education. Inclusion entails all children studying in the same classrooms and being provided with learning opportunities to enhance their abilities. All the information was obtained through current studies, methodical review, and meta-analysis, supplemented by secondary sources from the internet spanning from September 2023 to January 2024. This non-empirical research employed careful investigation and analysis techniques, including text criticism, critical examination of biographical studies, and narrative analysis. Street children are often stigmatized, labelled, and discriminated against, which severely hinders the rehabilitation process. Although inclusion is a lifelong and challenging process, it is instructional and edifying, and it may potentially rehabilitate street children. This research reveals that rehabilitating street children is extremely complex and seemingly impossible. Nevertheless, some children may desire a different lifestyle, offering hope and optimism for rehabilitation efforts. Therefore, concrete, holistic, and meaningful efforts must be made to properly confront homelessness, affording these children ample care, protection, education, and opportunities          for a better future. Government institutions, stakeholders, non-governmental organisations, and all individuals committed to the well-being of children should actively engage in meaningful and consistent dialogue to promote collaborative, effective, and sustainable support systems.

 

 

Author (s) Details

 

Gabriel Julien

Department of Educational Leadership and Management, Faculty of Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Global Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nicass/v3/5367

The Significance of Listening to Street Children: A Qualitative Case Study |Chapter 1 | New Ideas Concerning Arts and Social Studies Vol. 3

Globally, street children are seldom viewed positively, and they habitually encounter prejudice and discrimination daily. They are constantly disregarded, and very few people listen to them. It is instructive to note that they are normal human beings and have a right to express themselves. Hence, this research was conducted among seventeen street children at Rose Institution, a drop-in centre, in Trinidad and Tobago. The principal objective of this qualitative case study provide these children with an opportunity to express their views and opinions. Although they live in Rose Institution, they continue to frequent the streets. Published research indicates that there exists a lack of information about their lives and experiences, and this research fills that gap. Semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaires were employed, and data were triangulated. Data revealed that listening is necessary to try to understand the lives, goals and aspirations of these children. Listening can also diminish the barrier between these children and mainstream society. Although it is difficult and demanding, it is strongly suggested that professionals, policy makers and indeed all citizens listen carefully to the voices of these children to bring about some meaningful change.

 

Author (s) Details

Gabriel Julien
Department of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Global Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nicass/v3/5365

Cross-sectional Study to Assess the Personal Hygience Habits and Knowledge of Street Children in the Final Waste Disposal Site in Manggala District, Makassar City, Indonesia | Chapter 5 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 1

This chapter highlights about Factors Related to Personal Hygiene of Street Children in the Final Waste Disposal Site in Manggala District, Makassar City, Indonesia. Oral hygiene practices can be linked to personal hygiene practices, including access to water and other sanitation facilities. Street children are a real phenomenon in everyday life that cause complex social and health problems, dirty appearance, come from poor families, slum settlements or even street children do not have a place to live. The number of homeless people, beggars and street children has decreased, there were 990 street children and homeless people with beggars in Makassar City in 2012. There were 798 street children in Makassar City in 2016 who were recorded by Social Service officers from a number of points. Makassar road with various problems. This number includes 257 street children, 249 homeless and beggars, 58 buskers, 41 prostitutes, 5 transgender women, 63 drug users, and 125 mental disorders. The research is an analytic observation using the cross-sectional method. The study was conducted in 21 October, 2019 to 31 December, 2019. The results of the observations of street children were found with traffic light and garbage disposal sites. These places are often found with dirty, dirty appearance, dirty clothes, smelly, unkempt hair, dirty hands, not wearing sandals and sometimes they eat without washing their hands, which can cause health  problems for street children. Based on this background, the researcher is interested in examining the factors related to the personal hygiene of street children in the final waste disposal site in Manggala District, Makassar City. The population was the patients with street children numbered 88 people, a purposive sampling technique was applied through chic square, uji continuity correction and multiple logistic regression analysis. The results showed that the variables age, gender, education and knowledge had a relationship with personal hygiene (pvalue<0.035), the R-square value was 0.897, which means that the ability of the independent variable to explain the dependent variable was 89.7% and 10.3% explained by factors other than variables.Knowledge variable has a significant effect on personal hygiene (pvalue<0.001), the magnitude of the influence is indicated by the value of Exp (B). 26.6, which means that street children who are knowledgeable are at least 26.6 times less likely to have personal hygiene than street children with good knowledge. Personal hygiene principles should have become a part of everyday life and providing examples of good personal hygiene practices is the best way for parents to teach their children.

Author(s) Details:

Darwis,
Stikes Nani Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia.

Kristamuliana,
Stikes Panakukang, Makassar, Indonesia.

Masriadi,
Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makassar, Indonesia.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RUDHR-V1/article/view/13213