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Godrej, Dinyar,

An Invitation to Read Between the Lines. Dinyar Godrej and others. - New Internationalist, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 33, Family, 1522-3213; .

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: An Invitation to Read Between the Lines, April 2005; pp. 9+.

"All street people, not just children, face tremendous challenges keeping body and soul together. Children are just much more vulnerable. Lurking somewhere in our heads is the notion of the sanctity of childhood. Yet in almost every country in the world in which you care to look, multitudes of them are being pushed on to the streets. Their population may change continually as they drift on or off the streets. Their numbers may be manipulated--played down by coy governments; inflated by special interest groups. But the children themselves are always there. They must demonstrate a remarkable resilience and sense of enterprise in order to survive....Most of these children face such brutal social exclusion that letting them speak for themselves and have their say seemed the only sane response." (NEW INTERNATIONALIST) Children from around the world provide first-person accounts of their lives on the street.

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