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

TY - GEN

T1 - Shelter and Young People Living on the Streets of Harare

T2 - Analysis of Shelter Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Harare

AU - van Blerk, Lorraine

AU - Shand, Wayne

AU - Shanahan, Patrick

AU - Hunter, Janine

PY - 2018/6

Y1 - 2018/6

N2 - • 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.

AB - • 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.

KW - Street children/youth

KW - Authorities

KW - Child Protection

KW - Gender

KW - Health

KW - Identity

KW - Sexual Exploitation

KW - Resilience

KW - Safety

KW - Shelter

KW - Stigmatisation

UR - https://streetinvest.org/resource/growing-up-on-the-streets/

U2 - 10.20933/100001323

DO - 10.20933/100001323

M3 - Other contribution

T3 - Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers

PB - University of Dundee

ER -