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Lack of interactions and engagement among different welfare organizations, donors, and the general public severely limits opportunities that welfare organizations create for street children in third-world countries. Developing a digital hub can eliminate barriers by integrating people across all groups. However, in doing so, critical human factor challenges need to be overcome. Accordingly, in this study conducted over a couple of years, we design and develop a digital hub deployed to serve children living on the streets in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh (an excellent candidate…
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An estimated 1–3 million children live on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh relying on each other for survival in an environment characterized by illness, violence, and poverty. Research has rarely examined the everyday caregiving environment of street children in Bangladesh or how they survive the illness and injury so common to their experience. To understand street children's caregiving practices, this paper draws in part from the informal caregiving and social support literatures. The qualitative project purposively selected 75 street children and asked three primary questions…
This cross-sectional descriptive study found that poverty is the main reason children stay and work on the street. One hundred-twenty five street children were interviewed in Dhaka, Bangladesh and 41% reported poverty as the main reason for staying and working on the street. Over 80% reported they were frequently abused and 87.2% report they suffer from health problems. The study noted 21.3% of the children who responded did not stay with their parents while their parents did live in the city, and the remaining 78.7% lived with their parents. Most of the girls felt insecure…
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Children are one of the most vulnerable groups in almost any population because of their physical and emotional dependence on adults and social status. Their vulnerability is greater in developing countries because of the higher incidence of poverty and fewer social protection mechanisms in place compared to industrialized countries. In most developing countries, children are not the explicit recipients of the unprecedented growth in social protection efforts but do benefit from its expansion. This paper looks at how social protection is evolving in developing countries and how it…