Accessing Food on the Street in Three African Cities

Wayne Shand; Lorraine van Blerk; Janine Hunter

doi:10.20933/100001139

Accessing Food on the Street in Three African Cities

Wayne Shand, Lorraine van Blerk, Janine Hunter

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Abstract

- Strategies used by street children and youth to access food include informal work, prostitution, trading sex for food, begging, theft, picking from bins, sharing, building relationships with trusted adults, NGOs, churches.
- Lacking a safe space to store utensils and prepare food themselves, street children and youth often rely on poor quality food bought on the streets.
- Risks in accessing food include malnutrition, food poisoning, exploitation, and police detention, as well as low self-esteem, ridicule and humiliation.
- Young people use drugs to give them courage to pick from bins, steal, or cope with hunger.

Original language	English
Type	Briefing Paper
Media of output	Online
Publisher	University of Dundee
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20933/100001139
Publication status	Published - 9 Mar 2015

Publication series

Name	Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers
Publisher	StreetInvest
No.	4

Keywords

Child Protection
Food
Gender
Health
Resilience
Sexual Exploitation
Stigmatisation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Accessing Food on the Street in Three African Cities

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

UN SDGs

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2017 Stephen Fry Awards Public: Engagement Project of the Year

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