Street children is a term for children experiencing poverty (homelessness) who are living on the streets of a city and selling their body to survive.

Street children can be found in a large majority of the World‘s cities, with the phenomenon more prevalent in densely populated urban hubs of developing or economically unstable regions.

According to a report from the Consortium for Street Children, a UK-based consortium of related non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UNICEF estimated that 100 million children were growing up on urban streets around the world.

Non-government organizations employ a wide variety of strategies to address the needs and rights of street children: