Current lifestyle of the street children
Many children (n=80; 28.3%) help their parents
/guardians in income generation while others (n=45;
15.9%) strive to earn their own. Most children
(n=158; 55.8%) do both. The income generating
activities of these children include begging (n=66;
23.3%), sale of fruits / vegetables / lunch packets /
meat / fish (n=112; 39.6%), heavy manual labour
(n=85; 30.0%), working as helpers in motor garages
(n=20; 7.1%)/ markets (n=36; 12.7%)/ other smallscale
industries (n=28; 9.9%), cleaning public toilets
and buildings (n=19; 6.7%), and collecting recyclable
papers, cardboards, metals, glass materials (n=53;
18.7%) etc.