Living on the Streets, Making Plans for the Future: Street Children and Youth in Three African Cities

Janine Hunter; Lorraine van Blerk; Wayne Shand

doi:10.20933/100001242

Living on the Streets, Making Plans for the Future: Street Children and Youth in Three African Cities

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Abstract

• Like other young people, street children and youth have hopes, dreams and aspirations, but perceive their future as more immediate due to the daily search for shelter and food.
• Street children and youth hope to attain material and symbolic signs of adult status, including starting their own family, and the respect and esteem of the wider community.
• Their route to the future they aspire to is often unclear, hindered by a lack of shelter, identity documents, discrimination, and gender norms.
• While acknowledging limited power, street children and youth were simultaneously optimistic and realistic about what their future may hold.

Original language	English
Type	Briefing Paper
Media of output	Online
Publisher	University of Dundee
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20933/100001242
Publication status	Published - 9 May 2022

Publication series

Name	Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers
Publisher	StreetInvest
No.	15

Keywords

Street children/youth
Youth transitions
Future
Livelihoods
Accra
Ghana
Bukavu
Democratic Republic of Congo
Harare
Zimbabwe
Future plans
Hopes
Dreams
Discrimination
Gender norms

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Living on the Streets, Making Plans for the Future: Street Children and Youth in Three African Cities

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Research output

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