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Street children are one of the most vulnerable groups of urban poor. They face difficulties while living in the streets, and they also develop their own ways to overcome such difficulties. They have some common characteristics with the urban poor The Street Kids general, but they still have their own different characteristics that distinguish them The Street Kids other urban poor groups. This paper will present the characteristics of street children as a group of urban poor and will identify the differences between street children and the urban poor in general. It is divided into two main sections. Then, conclusions will be drawn. Any girl or boy … for whom the street in the widest sense of the word, including unoccupied dwellings, wasteland, etc. There are two groups of street children. There The Street Kids two main causes of the phenomenon of street children. The first is the economic stress and poor conditions that families face due to industrialization and urbanization. Street children face difficulties in providing themselves with good sources of food, clean drinking water, health care services, toilets and bath facilities, and adequate shelter. They also suffer from absence of parental protection and security due to the missing connection with their families. In addition, there is a lack of any kind of moral and emotional support Lugalla and Mbwambo, Regarding gender representation, the majority of The Street Kids children are boys Lugalla and Mbwambo, ; Le Roux and Smith, Females are less represented owing to cultural sanctions: girls are more controlled by their families. Moreover, when they escape from their families, they either work as servants for a family or are caught by pimps; it is particularly because they are more subject to abuse The Street Kids boys on the streets that they prefer any other place than the streets Lugalla and Mbwambo, The average age at which street children start living on the streets is between 9 and 12 years old, and they keep living on the streets until they reach the age of 15 to When they became older they start to look for stable jobs with better wages Rizzini et al. As for culture, morals and traditions, street children usually are not concerned about culture and morals, owing to being away from their family since childhood. Lugalla and Mbwambop. Regarding their health conditions, street children are subject to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV due to unprotected sexual behaviours among them and also because of casual sexual relationships. Girls who offer sex in exchange for security and shelter cannot oppose any unsafe sexual behaviour because of their weak position Lugalla and Mbwambo, This is unlike the urban poor in general who tend to live a normal life with only one partner, which helps control the transmission of sexual diseases: the urban poor are not forced to practice unsafe sexual behaviours like street children. In terms of social networks, children who do not have ties with their families form peer groups. These peer groups play the role of family and are a source of solidarity, economic and emotional support for their The Street Kids. Each group has a leader who is obeyed by group members, reflecting how well organized they are Le The Street Kids and Smith, ; Lugalla and Mbwambo, Street children are subject to dangerous and illegal activities such as drug dealing, crime, theft The Street Kids gang activities UNCHS, However, many of them also undertake legal economic activities such as parking, car washing, baggage loading and others Lugalla and Mbwambo, In terms of security, some of them depend on peer groups to provide them with security and protection. Girls are different from boys in forming their security groups. Girls group usually have an older girl who has a sexual relation with a boy or a guard who provides them with protection in return Lugalla and Mbwambo, In order to compare different characteristics between street children and the urban poor in general, six factors will be employed. These factors will be related to poor and vulnerable conditions that characterize each group and how each group The Street Kids to live in such conditions. Street children usually do The Street Kids have a permanent place to sleep. Many The Street Kids them sleep in the streets or on pavements near shops and malls, while others prefer sleeping at bus terminals, railways platforms, under bridges and by cinemas Patel, ; Lugalla and The Street Kids, Meanwhile, some girls prefer spending their nights with The Street Kids guards due to being vulnerable and subject to abuse if they spent their nights on the streets Lugalla and Mbwambo, Meanwhile, many urban poor live in very poor quality housing known as slums where people do not have access to one or all of these services: drinking water, sanitation and electricity. Nevertheless — for example in India- some slums are legally accepted and recognized by the government, and provided with these services Loughhead et al. It could be argued that despite the poor conditions of slums, they provide a permanent place to live in, and are more secure than living in the streets like street children. However, slum dwellers need to pay for rent, electricity and water while street children do not need to pay for any of these services, which would reduce the financial burden on them. Street children work as car-parking boys, car washers, guards for the cars, shoe shiners and baggage loaders. Some older girls exchange sex for money The Street Kids and Mbwambo, Some of them rely on selling goods and begging in traffic for making an income. In order to secure their daily basic needs, they set up The Street Kids system whereby each group has a zone where they undertake their activities to avoid any kind of competition for the available resources Lugalla and Mbwambo, On the other hand, slum dwellers are involved in the informal sector as a source of generating income that represents an acceptable alternative to the formal sector. However, the informal sector has some disadvantages that affect the poor, such as absence of social insurance and vulnerability The Street Kids economic shocks Baker, It The Street Kids be argued that despite street children seeming more vulnerable than the urban poor in general, they can manage to afford their daily life needs due to being very well organized. For example, they know worshipping places and times so they can go there at prayer time in order to gain The Street Kids or food. They are also aware of religious festivals and celebrations, as these days bring them good sources of income. They also use tourist sites and NGOs as a good source for survival. Some street children use seawater for washing, The Street Kids others use public bathrooms. Sometimes they use leaking water from public pipes or use public water kiosks to fulfil their needs for drinking water. However, they are harassed either by people or by police. Some use public and railway toilets while others use pavements, parks and the seaside Lugalla and Mbwambo, ; Patel, Slum dwellers also suffer meeting their needs for water. Interviews conducted with slum dwellers in India show the extent of this suffering. People who The Street Kids money can pay to install water taps or buy water, while those who cannot afford that bring water from public taps, police stations and leaking pipes. Some others bring water from houses where they work Bapat and Agarwal, It can be noticed that both groups do suffer The Street Kids access to drinking and washing water, but street children suffer more because of being chased by the police and not being accepted by society. So, both groups are using similar ways to access water, but street children are not accepted in doing so, while the slum dwellers can do the same freely. Furthermore, it has been acknowledged and legalized that slum dwellers have the right to civic facilities in some cities Patel, As mentioned earlier, street children depend on peer groups as their social network for their protection, support and solidarity. The urban poor in general also set up a sort of social network The Street Kids provides them with means of support, especially economic support and solidarity Burns, As for treatment, it depends on how much money street children can afford when one of them becomes sick. If they have money, they go to the chemist to buy medicine, especially if they have some knowledge about medicines, but if they do not have money, they wait until their bodies heal naturally Lugalla and Mbwambo, Some of them also receive support from their friends during illness The Street Kids, Whereas, urban poor people who are living in slums are subject to other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis due to the unhealthy environment and overcrowding, but they have no access to health services Loughhead et al. However, they have alternatives to finance their needs through possibility of savings, access to loans, borrowing, and they also may consider selling some assets Collins et al, and this money can be used to access to health care services. Some of the urban poor have assets that help them to overcome difficult living conditions. One of the most important assets is having a house where they live, regardless of its condition. The Esther case study Schlyter, is an example of an urban poor family that has different assets, including having a house and renting out part to lodgers, having a sewing machine, and also having two of her children contributing to the household economy. Street children do not have this kind of assets that the urban The Street Kids have. They own nothing except the clothes they wear and what they earn from work during the day Patel, It seems that the only asset street children have is being healthy, so they can manage to The Street Kids income to cover their daily The Street Kids. Girls are different from boys in this regard, as they consider their bodies their assets when they sell sex in return for money The Street Kids protection. Different characteristics of street children have been presented in this paper. Some characteristics of street children were compared with the characteristics of the urban poor in order to highlight the differences and similarities. In conclusion, although many of the characteristics of street children are different from those of the urban poor, they have one thing in common, which is benefiting from the places where they live. Despite the harsh conditions both groups live in, they make good use of the surrounding environment to survive. In other words, slums are the source of livelihood, social networks and shelter for their dwellers Burns, Similarly, street children do benefit from the streets as a source The Street Kids generating income, as a large number of street children who still have ties with their families contribute to the income of their families Rizzini, Thus, it would be recommended to consider the advantages of slums and streets for their residents, besides the disadvantages, in future research The Street Kids order to gather a holistic image that would help to address these phenomena in the appropriate way. Bapat, M. Environment and Urbanization, 15 2 Burns, The Street Kids. Unpublished Master dissertation, University of Birmingham. Collins, The Street Kids. Morduch, J. Rutherford, S. Ruthven O. New Jersey: Princeton University. Le Roux, J. Causes and characteristics The Street Kids the street child phenomenon: The Street Kids global perspective. Adolescence, 33 : Lockhart, C. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 16 3 : Loughhead, S. Lugalla, J. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23 2 : 10 ways you can help street children without giving money - Matador Network

It became The Bash Street Kids in and has become a regular feature, appearing in every issue. SinceDavid Sutherland has drawn about 2, strips. It portrays Class 2B of The Street Kids Bash Street School in Beanotown, where the teacher and headmaster wear mortarboards and gowns and the students sit at wood desks with inkwells. They are taught by a stereotypical "Teacher", whose wife is "Mrs Teacher". The characters were inspired by the view from the D. According The Street Kids Leo Baxendale, "In fact, the catalyst for my creation of Bash Street was a Giles cartoon of January kids pouring out of school, heads flying off and sundry mayhems. Low, the managing editor of D. Thomson's children's publications in Dundee. I received an offhand response, a dampener. When they first appeared, the strips consisted of the kids outside school; the settings were increasingly inside the school, and the strip was retitled The Bash Street Kids on 11 November with "the kids" preparing The Street Kids a pantomime. In the Kids' 40th anniversaryit was announced that The Bash Street Kids would be overhauled to appeal to a more politically correct, modern The Street Kids. Changes included the replacement of Danny's trademark school hat by a top hat, Fatty becoming fit and muscular and Tom-boy Toots acting more feminine. The school would be replaced by a technologically advanced "academy", and Teacher by a robot. A protest began, accompanied by petitions and publicity stunts throughout Britain, demanding that the characters remain the same. The proposal turned out to be a hoax when the story introducing the new Bash Street The Street Kids saw them in their old ways. Editor Euan Kerr The Street Kids pleased with the fan response, saying that the publication "even got death threats! Often drawn by Mike Pearce and Kev F. These feature-length strips were more detailed, delving into an obscure character's personality and introducing new traits. Spotty was revealed as sarcastic and aggressive, while Plug was a more sympathetic, emotional character. The strips detailed a rivalry between the kids and the comic's cover star, Dennis the Menace. Mike Pearce soon began penciling a spin-off from the original strip, The Bash Street Kids — Singled Outa single-page The Street Kids concentrating on one "kid" a week. The Street Kids retired, the strips were taken over by Tom Paterson before being mothballed and they were later collected into two annuals. As Dennis the Menace was revamped, he appeared less with other Beano characters and more by himself due The Street Kids the popularity of his new TV series. Danny, whose full name is Daniel Deathshed Morgan, [8] is generally depicted in a skull and crossbones jumper and a floppy red school cap. He became the leader The Street Kids in the strip, after he gave each kid a wine gum. Danny often devises the The Street Kids pranks and escape routes from school. Although he is clever he does poorly in school, primarily due to his laziness and short attention span. Danny is often described as having the "soul of a pirate", the reason he gets caught up in rebellious schemes and boisterous activities. Like most of the other characters he is usually rude to adults, once asking Smiffy to speak up because he couldn't hear him over Teacher. In later strips Danny has some respect for Teacher, often helping him out of trouble. Although he hates school, like the other children he found it hard to cope when the Bash Street School was closed. His swelled head is often deflated by a fellow student. Danny seems especially close to Toots, calling her his second-in-command, and is most annoyed by Smiffy's stupidity and Spotty's sarcasm. Danny has an intense rivalry with Dennis the Menace, highlighted in a strip where the The Street Kids compete to find a treasure under The O2 Arena and ending with Danny outwitting Dennis; [10] they often argue in crossover strips. Although Danny also dislikes Roger the Dodger although he is willing to use him and Minnie the Minxtheir The Street Kids are not as intense and he once had a crush on Minnie. Except for Cuthbert, the rest of the class have fun swapping his thick-rimmed glasses with others and seeing the resultant mayhem. In older strips, the character is sometimes called Herbert instead of 'Erbert. During an escape, 'Erbert is usually bumping into a wall or running in the opposite direction. Feature-length strips and crossovers brand most of 'Erbert's mischief as accidental or the result of misdirection. His short-sightedness is renowned; in The Beano Annual the characters take a cruise to Perthonly to reach shore at PerthScotland. When they go to the captain's quarters, they discover that 'Erbert has put himself in charge of the ship. Although he is quiet and friendly, 'Erbert can wreak as much havoc as his classmates. He is a source of entertainment for the others; Sidney and Spotty once send him into a field full of cow patswith misleading directions The Street Kids getting out. Despite this, they consider him "one of the kids". When he moves to the Bash Street Academy 'Erbert receives contact lenses to improve his sight, discarding them The Street Kids he returns to his old school. When Danny tricks Fatty into completing a long assault The Street Kids to prove his fitness, he breaks the equipment. Although he is usually the only student able to eat school cook Olive's meals The Street Kids incident, in the annual her curry makes him ill. Fatty has several stories about him in The Street Kids Beano Library series. In the academy makeover, he has slimmed down, but regains his former girth after being freed from brainwashing. Plug, whose real name is Percival Proudfoot Plugsley, [16] is a lanky, gangling character with a large overbite, protruding ears, two buck teeth and a wide nose. On the cover of Plug his name is given as Percival Proudfoot Plugsey, although in some earlier strips he is named Claude. Plug's real name is only occasionally used in The The Street Kidssuch as in Singled Out when Teacher addresses him by his full name. Despite his appearance Plug is one of the more sympathetic Bash Street Kids, often ready to defend those he feels have been unjustly treated; he once calms Danny down after he loses patience with Smiffy's stupidity. He has on one occasion fainted from seeing his own reflection after polishing the handles of Teacher's bicycleand considers himself the most handsome boy in Beanotown. Plug The Street Kids his own comic from to featuring him The Street Kids his two pets Pug from Pup Parade and Chunkee the Monkey[19] and was the first Beano with a spin-off. Plug was later incorporated into The Beezer. He has two sisters, Plugella and Plugena, [20] who The Street Kids resemble him. However, in earlier strips his father was shown to be quite handsome to the confusion of the other kids and Plug is described as taking after his mother in appearance. In the September issue of The Beano he is described as Jonah's nephew, implying that he is the son of Jonah's sister Jinx. With Kev F. Sutherland Plug had a more dominant role and was frequently a story's main character. In one he has a girlfriend, making him the first Beano character except for Walter to do so. Although Plug received plastic surgery for the Bash Street Academy makeover, he soon returned to his familiar appearance. When he sees his friends brainwashed into behaving, he saves them by installing a virus on the robot teacher's disc drive. Sidney, whose real name is Sidney Mason Pye [22] is Toots' twin brother, whose spiked haircut resembles a chimney-sweeping brush. He is a trickster, with Smiffy a The Street Kids target. When the kids rehearse a nativity playSmiffy asks what sound a sheep makes. Sidney replies "Woof", and he and Wilfred go into hysterics when Smiffy ruins the rehearsal. Sidney loves animals and has a wide variety of pets, from elephants to mice. His mouse is often part of the kids' plans. During the academy makeover, his chimney-brush hair is shaved off and he is apparently hypnotised. Smiffy's full name is Aristotle John Smiffy. Although he is sometimes very kind and intuitive similar to an idiot savantmost of the time he cannot remember what colour the sky is. In his brief involvement in The Wizardhe is given the name John Smith. In he acquires a pet pebble, Kevin, who has his own feature Where's Kevin? In the academy makeover Smiffy has a new brain installed, making him the brightest of the kids. Spotty, whose real name is James Jasper Cameron, [25] is a short boy who wears a blue collared jersey and an extremely long, striped tie. He is proud and protective of the black spots [26] covering his face, fending off any attempts to remove them. The Street Kids Danny The Street Kids dislikes Dennis the Menace, especially after Dennis menaces him during the latter's 50th-birthday party. Toots is a fan of boy bands and has admitted a crush on Dennis the Menace, sending him a valentine. Surprisingly tough and as bossy as Danny, Toots is the gang's second-in-command and takes charge in Danny's absence. Her bossiness is exemplified in the feature-length Queen Tootswhere she discovers she is connected to royalty. When Toots takes advantage of The Street Kids power, Dennis announces that she cannot boss him around and she puts him in a makeshift The Street Kids tower quickly populated by other The Street Kids characters and the rest of the kids. She loves music, often pulling a "boogie box" a CD player behind her or listening to her headphones instead of Teacher. Although Toots enjoys the boys' company, she sometimes exhibits disdain, naivete or exasperation at their more boyish behaviour. Wilfrid, whose real name is Wilfrid John Wimble [31] is the smallest and quietest of the Bash Street Kids, and has social anxiety, his thoughts hidden behind a green jumper going up to his nose. He loves turtles, and resembles a tortoise; his neck is never seen, because when he removes his jumper his vest is just as high. He is often simply present in the stories, speaking only occasionally. Unlike 'Erbert, most of Wilfrid's mischief is intentional. He hangs around most often with Spotty and 'Erbert and, occasionally, Sidney. In the academy storyline Wilfrid apparently has a large chin under his jersey, but it is prosthetic and he pulls it off. Cuthbert Jason Cringeworthy, the brightest student in the class, is a teacher's pet and has a name for every letter of the alphabet. First appearing inhe resembles a miniature Teacher a play on the D. Thomson comic tradition that pets resemble their owners, like Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Walter the Softy from Dennis the Menace. The first thing Danny said about Cuthbert was, "He reminds me of someone I don't particularly like". Sutherland he is one of the gang unlike earlier strips, where he seemed to dislike the other kids and sometimes comes up with intelligent ideas to help their cause or save the school. Cuthbert wants to be like the other kids, but although he is liked he does not quite fit in. The school janitor observes that he will never make any friends. 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After in-depth conversations with partner service providers, the City of Seattle, and private funders, we have come to the very difficult decision that PSKS must close its doors no later than December The Street Kids SincePSKS has responded to the individual needs of thousands of youth and young adults, with compassion and effective programs that help them envision The Street Kids better future and support on their path to realize that future. PSKS began when our founder realized that homeless youth were not being given a voice and their concerns were largely unmet. In subsequent years, other youth programs closed or moved to other neighborhoods and PSKS became the sole provider on The Street Kids Hill. InPSKS began providing emergency shelter, and inwe became an enhanced shelter allowing us to provide even more wrap-around services to support these The Street Kids. While enhanced shelter is a proven model for ending homelessness, our need for increased support and sustainable infrastructure prevent us from continuing beyond This difficult decision was not made overnight. Sadly, our exploration led us to realize that the sustainability problems are not unique to PSKS. We wish to express our deepest The Street Kids to our partner agencies who worked with us to find ways to save these vital shelter beds. However, they too, are experiencing the same fiscal limitations and were unable to help. In short, the resources in King County do not meet the demand for services that have otherwise proven effective in ending homeless for youth and young adults. We, the Board of Directors, wish to acknowledge our many partners, volunteers, Secret Santas, dedicated staff and past Board leaders The Street Kids their many contributions of time, talent, and treasure. You are in our hearts as are the youth The Street Kids young adults who continue to need these critical services. PSKS [Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets] We Believe Homeless youth know best what they need; all homeless youth have gifts and talents; and entrusting power to youth restores their dignity and can have a transformative effect in their lives. We offer The Street Kids, employment and housing support to help participants get back on their feet and become engaged, self sufficient members of the community. Mission Statement PSKS supports homeless and at-risk youth and young adults to empower themselves and lead positive and self-sufficient lives.