Bush fire care Projects for orphans and vulnerable children

In Zambia the problem of street children has become a major concern for the community members and it has been estimated that there are close to 72,000 children living on the streets.
There are 2 types of street children in Zambia.

1. Children on the streets: These are children who spend time on the streets they spend the nights on the streets and they feed on the streets, they have made the streets to be their residence. These are very difficult to be handdled in that they have become like savages and very violent. These are the children found to be using drugs and found in petty crimes. They think they are a forgotten generation, and none cares for them so they behave like a porcupine when it sees an enemy it becomes offensive.

2. Children of the streets : These are children who just come to work earn money on the streets and later during the day they go back home with the little money they have made on the streets . These are children who either being sent by their family members who ca not afford to feed them at may after the death of their parents.  Some of these children are very committed with  school life only that the circumstances they have found themselves in can not allow them to continue with school . They have taken up the responsibility of the elderly person to take care of other siblings at home. They have become bread winners .
By being found on the streets people take advantage of them and they are being sexually , physically, emotionally abused.

Bush Fire Ministries have been involoved in the tracing of relatives of the children mentioned and see how best they can be helped through counselling and be placed in schools, the ministry has also been in partnership with the ministry of social welfare and community development under the Zambian government.

Bush Fire has also been working with other regious groups within the community to help curb the problem of street children..
The community members have been mobilised and sensitzed with informastion aimed at strengthening the African extended family systems , because we believethat no child is an island each one has got the roots all is needed is for the community to get organised which Bush Fire Ministries has facilitated.

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