Shelter and Young People Living on the Streets of Harare: Analysis of Shelter Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Harare

Lorraine van Blerk; Wayne Shand; Patrick Shanahan; Janine Hunter

doi:10.20933/100001323

Shelter and Young People Living on the Streets of Harare: Analysis of Shelter Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Harare

Lorraine van Blerk, Wayne Shand, Patrick Shanahan, Janine Hunter

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Abstract

• Shelter is fundamental to all aspects of the wellbeing and resilience of young people living on the streets of Harare, such as accessing food, making a living, maintaining health, feeling safe, stable and protected.
• Children and youth in Harare use a variety of places as shelter, including alleyways, abandoned buildings, graveyards, railways wagons, shop verandas, parks, lodges, movie houses and rented group rooms.
• Failure to find a safe place to sleep exposes young people to both physical and sexual violence, ill health, conflict with shop owners, and police beatings or arrests as they are suspected of crimes.
• Girls exchange sex for shelter, risking unwanted pregnancy, violence and sexually transmitted diseases. Accessing shelter is more difficult for girls who are pregnant or who are caring for babies.
• Failure to obtain shelter means street children and youth have nowhere to secure their possessions, limiting their ability to accumulate assets for the future.

Original language	English
Type	Briefing Paper Addendum
Media of output	Online
Publisher	University of Dundee
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20933/100001323
Publication status	Published - Jun 2018

Publication series

Name	Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers
Publisher	StreetInvest
No.	3B

Keywords

Street children/youth
Authorities
Child Protection
Gender
Health
Identity
Sexual Exploitation
Resilience
Safety
Shelter
Stigmatisation

UN SDGs

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

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Shelter and Young People Living on the Streets of Harare: Analysis of Shelter Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Harare

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Shelter and Young People Living on the Streets of Harare: Analysis of Shelter Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Harare

Abstract

Publication series

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Research output

In the Shadow of a Pandemic: Harare's Street Youth Experience COVID-19

Africa Consultation Report for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Children in Street Situations

Methodology: Longitudinal, Participatory Research with Street Children and Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Prizes

2017 Stephen Fry Awards Public: Engagement Project of the Year

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