Building Assets on the Streets: Street Children and Youth in Three African Cities

Janine Hunter; Lorraine van Blerk; Wayne Shand

doi:10.20933/100001149

Building Assets on the Streets: Street Children and Youth in Three African Cities

Janine Hunter (Lead / Corresponding author), Lorraine van Blerk, Wayne Shand

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Abstract

•For young people living on the streets, building assets is particularly challenging as earnings are easily exhausted meeting the costs of basic daily needs.
•Assets are forms of financial, material and social ‘capital’ that street children and youth generate through employment and their social networks.
•Lacking shelter, street children and youth have limited ability to store possessions or protect them from theft, destruction by the authorities or the elements.
•Accumulating assets over time is a way for young people to achieve some stability and build their adult lives.

Original language	English
Type	Briefing Paper
Media of output	Online
Publisher	University of Dundee
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20933/100001149
Publication status	Published - 19 Dec 2018

Publication series

Name	Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers
Publisher	StreetInvest
No.	14

Keywords

Assets
street children/youth
Human capital

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