DC Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | ESATU, SHIMELIS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-23T12:20:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-06-23T12:20:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015-11 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | . | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7020 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The phenomenon of street children is considered to be the most important problem facing
children today in both the developed and developing world. Accordingly, this phenomenon needs
to be assessed the causes and to be solved. To meet the objective, the street living children and
youths, government and non-governmental sector officers have been participated in the study.
The number of respondents were 103(20 female street living and 83 male) street living children
and youths. The participants were selected using accidental sampling technique because these
street living communities have no defined time and permanent living place. Street children are
denied access to education, basic health care, adequate nutrition, leisure time and the safety and
security of their homes, families and the community. In addition street children in Hawassa are
vulnerable to wide and extreme violations of their rights. They are frequently abused in verbally,
physically and sexually. Their situation is made worse by the negative attitude of the general
publics who are insensitive to their predicaments and are less helpful.
The study found out that the causal factors of child streetism were analyzed in reference to the
theoretical frame of the study. Hence, in this study the situation of living in poverty was found to
be one of the factors to push children to move to the street. Parental problem was another factor
for a child‟s decision to leave home to move to the street. Children‟s rational choice to live on
the street and pressure from the culture on children to move to the city to work as early as they
were able to work were other responsible factors for many children‟s street life involvement.
The community in general and the parents of the children in particular need well organized
mobilization and awareness creation of the problem of street children. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY | en_US |
dc.title | ASSESSMENT OF THE CAUSES OF CHILD MIGRATION ANDTHEIR CHALLENGES, THE CASE OF HAWASSA, SNNPR OF ETHIOPIA | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | SOCIAL WORK
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