Every society has a bottom spectrum consisting of those who are most vulnerable and in need of care. This group unfortunately happens to be those children who have been abandoned, deprived of any familial support or mentorship and/or the victims of many forms of harassment. This group grows larger as the political and economic systems grow weaker and become unstable and thus, these street children
take the brunt of it. With no guidance or knowledge, they turn to whatever means they can find to survive and take comfort in; be it common theft, or drug abuse and gang formations. As these children are mostly teenagers or younger they are an easy target for adults to manipulate as well for their own gains which puts them in an even more unfavorable and helpless state. Coupled with their troubled background and disoriented state of mind due to their situation, these children are expelled from gaining the benefits of the mainstream financial and mental support from the government to build themselves up as self-sufficient healthy individuals. As a result, they may even spend their entire lifetimes participating in destructive means of living within an anti-social environment which leads to physical, mental, and emotional damage incurred upon them. We believe that no child deserves to be thrust into such an unforgiving lifestyle by force and so we work together to improve their living conditions and teach them the skills they need to stabilize their lives. What must be realized is that while this particular group seems the most vulnerable in a society, this group is also the most valuable. Given the right support and recognizing the diversely damaging backgrounds they come from, we can aid these individuals in transforming themselves into self-sufficient integral parts of the community who can then empower others like themselves to be integrated into the community socially by a chain reaction.
