Of the estimated street children living in Bangladesh, 380,000 of those children are between the ages of 5 and 14. The streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka - is home to more than half of these kids. The RB team based in Bangladesh recently conducted interviews with the children in Kamlapur Station, Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar – they were asked about their life on the street. The interviews reveal the shocking and sad reality that these children live through.
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What would you like to do when you grow up?
The street children of Dhaka are surprisingly resilient and at the same time, big dreamers. There are many children that run away from home knowing that they will face hardship on the streets with only the hope that their dreams will come alive.
The Bangladesh Restless Beings team set out to ask what some of the street children of Dhaka aspire to be when they grew up; what their dreams are, who they hope to be, where they see themselves in the future if they had the choice.
Eid clothes in time for the 2013 Eid ul-Adha festivities!
A few months ago Restless Beings carried out the ‘My Ramadan Resolution’ campaign to give street children Eid gifts (consisting of a meal, new clothes and educational books) at the end of the spiritual month of Ramadan.
It brings us great joy to say we were able to raise enough to buy for all those who frequently use the Centre as well as many more, which was contributed towards the extra food distribution on the day!
The Restless Beings Bangladesh team as well as the children give their heartfelt thanks to the donors and supporters of this project.
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Ask anyone and they will tell you; when they were young, all they wanted to do was make lots of money and chase their dreams when they grew up.
Everyone then dragged their heels through school, college and university and then finally when they landed that great job, they moved out.
Some of the children now living on the streets probably had the same dream – except their reasons to flock to the city are multidimensional. And their reasons to migrate are not often because they wanted to, but rather because they were forced to.
Street Children: Why Bother?
The overly congested city of Dhaka, has much in its background. But amongst the congestion, commotion and pollution are the floating population.
There are over 400,000 street children in Bangladesh with over a third of them settled in Dhaka. Living in dense slums, squatter settlements or on the pavement makes them vulnerable to a dangerous concoction of dilemmas - from malnutrition to sexual abuse, force participation to petty theft to substance abuse.