street children a global challenge 2015 - Consortium for Street Children

STREET  CHILDREN A  GLOBAL  CHALLENGE 2015 Canada

50%

of  homeless  youth  come   from  middle-­  and  upper-­ income  households

UK

France

The  number  of  young   people  sleeping  rough  in   London  has  more  than   doubled  in  the  last  4  years  

762

Ukraine

58% 27%

of  street-­connected  youth  have   engaged  in  sex  work of  street-­connected  girls  aged   15-­19  became  pregnant

Ghana

China

30,000

7,827

1.5million

children  were   homeless  in  2012  

street  children  in  Kumasi

children  are  living  in  street  situations

Ethiopia

11,830

people  under  26  sleep   on  the  streets  

street  children   in  Addis  Ababa

Venezuela

15,000 street  children  in  urban  areas

4,796

Lebanon

1,510 73%

street  children  in  Adama

children  have  been  found living  or  working  on  the  street

Australia

are  of  Syrian   origin

Children  make  up of  the  homeless   population

27%

Brazil There  are

23,973

The  Democratic   Republic  of  the  Congo

children  and  young  people  in   street  situations,  with  just  over

5,000

in  the  state  of  Rio   de  Janeiro  alone

60,000

street-­connected   children

Sierra  Leone

12,023 49,698

At  least

children  have  lost  a  parent   because  of  the  Ebola  crisis

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Sri  Lanka

There  are

street  children

17%

Indonesia  

78%

of  street  children  have  engaged   in  commercial  sex  work

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