Accessing Food on the Street in Three African Cities

TY - GEN

T1 - Accessing Food on the Street in Three African Cities

AU - Shand, Wayne

AU - van Blerk, Lorraine

AU - Hunter, Janine

PY - 2015/3/9

Y1 - 2015/3/9

N2 - - 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.

AB - - 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.

KW - Child Protection

KW - Food

KW - Gender

KW - Health

KW - Resilience

KW - Sexual Exploitation

KW - Stigmatisation

UR - https://www.streetchildren.org/tools-and-resources/growing-up-on-the-streets/

UR - https://www.dundee.ac.uk/growing-streets/knowledge-exchange-and-impact

U2 - 10.20933/100001139

DO - 10.20933/100001139

M3 - Other contribution

T3 - Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers

PB - University of Dundee

ER -