Street Kids in Egypt, a new issue

There is very little data on the number of street children in Egypt and on the severity of the problems they face. However, observing the large numbers of poor children in the streets of Cairo and other large cities of Egypt - begging, running errands, parking/cleaning cars - and how these numbers have changed suggests that the problem is on the increase. A preliminary study of street children in Cairo carried out in 1993, added to the findings of studies from countries in Latin America and Asia where socio-economic changes similar to those in Egypt have taken place, suggests that the root causes are: rapid urbanization, deteriorating economic conditions, declining governmental and non governmental social programmes, and weakening family ties

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