Street Children of Dhaka, Capital of Bangladesh
Street Children of Dhaka, Capital of Bangladesh
Almost two and half century has passed since founding of Dhaka City by Shaesta Khan at 1760 AD. The pleasant and charming garden city of Mughal era has lost its character over the centuries and gathered the Metropolitan characteristics with its concrete structures, criss-crossed wide & narrow streets, urban utilities and most of all the massive number of 15 million inhabitants.
The basic Problem of Metropolitan Cities of this region is almost the same. That is ever-increasing inhabitants with unplanned urbanization. The inhabitation rate of Metropolitan Cities in this region are so high that it becomes almost impossible to meet the minimal demand of habitation, utilities, services and security for them, besides unplanned urbanization makes the problem even more complex.
There are more than a few causes for the downpour of inhabitants in to the Metropolitan Dhaka. The only mentionable job in rural Bangladesh is cultivation related jobs which is mostly seasonal. Lack of alternative livelihood in the off season forces the rural inhabitants in to the cities in search of livelihood. Moreover the landless people has increased sharply in number as the population has doubled within just 20 years and it is very unfortunate that from the beginning, Bangladesh governments failed to take right measures to create enough jobs for its rural citizens.
Again, the curse of global warming created by rich countries hits as natural disaster to the poor country like ours more fiercely each year than the previous year. There is one of each or more of the natural disasters like flood, river/sea erosion, cyclone and earthquake each year making numerous people homeless and forcing them in to the cities for survival. In cities they become rickshaw puller or do similar physical jobs which pay very little. They forced to live in low rented unplanned slum houses here and there in the city. Struggle for survival leaves them so busy that they generally don't have any time or resource to raise their children properly.
Another curse of the male dominated society of Bangladesh is male parent remarries at their will leaving their previous wife and children helpless. This thing happens in large numbers at the low incoming population as the wives are unaware of their rights or do not know how to exercise it. After the male leaves, generally who were the only incoming member of the family, it becomes very difficult for the females to raise their children properly.
Whatever the reason is, census ravels that as many as 300,000 children spends their time in streets of Dhaka City, raised in streets, with no education, not enjoying protection of a single clauses of international child rights, becomes vulnerable to criminal activities like arms carrier, child sex, child traffic or becomes drug peddler. Within a few years they themselves become a famous criminal spreading terror and havoc in the locality. It is estimated that 300,000 more or less of unprotected children are raised currently in the streets of Dhaka.
Present Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police like many other prominent social scientist and child right activists of the country rightly pointed out the problem, that the current criminal activity record of Dhaka Metropolitan area is bad enough to handle for the law enforcing agencies, what will be the situation of law and order in the city if a good number of these 300,000 unprotected street children of Dhaka joins in criminal list doubling the number of current criminal activities. Something has to be done for these unfortunate kids and all effort should be taken by government agencies and NGO's to meet this problem, to provide rights of the unfortunate kids as well to keep peace and harmony of the society.
Police chiefs' concern is in his concerned area i.e. to stop one to become a future criminal but not that a Human Rights not exploited by criminal activities or not becoming a future criminal is not entitled to his protective rights. We think , any children who have no parent or have parent but they are unable to provide right protection to their children, who rooming in the street, working as garbage collector or doing any small jobs or doing no jobs are entitled to a minimal protection of rights. Anxiety & Panic Attacks in Children Huffy Green Machine: Perfect For The Kids Pregnancy and "Nesting" with 6 kids Tips On Picking Out Children's Dance Shoes Healing Rejection And Self Hatred In Children Do You Disicpline Your Children in the Right Way Enhance Your Child's Emotional And Physical Wellbeing With Boxing Lessons Best Online children's store A premium children's boutique The Diet For Teenagers Only Book The Diet For Teenagers Working with Kids: Psychology Careers Choose The Kids Elf Christmas Costume In Effective Ways