Street Children

by Andy Butcher (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.29

  An estimated 100 million children spend their days on city streets around the world. 10 million of these are totally on their own, uncared for and unprotected. 4,611 children and adolescents were executed in Brazil between 1988 and 1990.These frightening statistics are just a snapshot of the plight of street children in the world today. The result of extensive research, this book combines hard statistics with individual stories to challenge our indifference and awaken our conscience. Andy Butcher compares the situation facing Street Children today with that epitomized in the Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. Frighteningly, he concludes that if we look at a global perspective, little progress has been made.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.29

  Some experts predict that as many as one hundred million children spend their days on the streets of the world's cities fending for themselves. Most of these have somewhere to return to at night, but ten million are totally on their own, uncared for and with no-one to turn to except other members of their small group or gang. The result of extensive research, this book gives a heart-rending overview of the situation of the world's street children. Hard statistics are combined with stories about individuals to challenge our indifference and awaken our conscience. Throughout, the present day issue is seen in conjunction with the plight of homeless children revealed over a century ago by Charles Dickens in his novel, Oliver Twist , revealing how little progress has been made. Money raised by the sale of this book helps the Oasis Trust, a charitable organization who work among the street children of India and South America. Andy Butcher is the author of Streetwise and co-author of Living On the Devil's Doorstep .