Children are the most independent beings on earth. At this stage of their life, their only responsibility is to learn what they are taught while adults take up the responsibility of providing for them. In the case of street children, there is a twist, they are rather the providers mostly from poor families tasked to…
Life will give back to us whatever we’ve instilled in our children. We cannot reap what we haven’t sown. We are busy building all our children and ignoring street children, at the end the impact we’ve made in their lives would repay us. Every great personality in our societies was once a child, some without…
Life has a way of giving everyone a second chance to our mistakes. Most of us have risen by the constant correction of the things we did wrong so that our lives would move in the right direction. When it comes to the issues of street children, we’ve not done much. We complain of our…
We can only address the visible things that stunt our growth and development. Most issues that require an emergency response are those that threaten our existence and make our growth stagnant. Streetism isn’t a new social canker, the damages of leaving it unattended haven’t benefitted us in any way. Many of us have been robbed…
Street children are the most seen but not heard of! You do not have to be homeless to know that life on the streets is tough. Especially hard on kids. Kids need to be educated. In the right setting, kids love to learn. But it is challenging to learn when you are on the streets.…
The world continues to battle the novel coronavirus and its adverse effects on governance and socio-economic activities. Though vaccines have been produced and mass vaccination currently ongoing, life has not returned to normal as experts are still figuring how best to approach the fight. Ghana, on the other hand, is not only battling this virus…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth negligence on our streets. It’s very hard for street-connected children to access basic health needs that may put them at more risk for the virus. These things didn’t begin just now, when we trace the lives of street children, we would notice that they are the least people to…
