"HEALTH DELINQUENCIES FACED BY THESE ANGELS"

Estimates by organizations working with street children suggest there are at least 5000 in the city at any one time, with the largest numbers based around data durbar or the railway station. These children earn their livings as scavengers, selling the empty bottles, cans and paper they collect each day. More and more children living on the streets are also being drawn into a life of petty crime by those running pick-pocketing or drug-pushing mafias.
These children have to face many problems. For instance, economic and social deficiency coupled with rising physical and sexual abuse, constitute the most serious threats to these runaway children. There is a lack access to safe drinking water which contributes to many major health problems. Including high rate of diarrhea, gastroenteritis etc. Moreover, Sexually Transmitted Diseases are found to be highest among these children, who hardly survive their teenage years.

Many of these children suffer deep psychological problems, sometimes cutting themselves with razors, alongside skin infections and problems arising from glue addiction. Many of the children suffer respiratory problems or stomach complaints.
When the children run from their houses they have nothing with them, most of these children join gangs and these gangs force them to beg, so numbers of these children are involved in begging, so city faces alarming rise in baggers.