More than 25,000 children and youngsters live on the streets of Colombia day and night. Most of them have run away from home to escape the human misery (physical and mental abuse, alcoholism, quarrels) and poverty of the family. The street children try to earn a living with irregular jobs, such as washing car windscreens, selling cigarettes, recycling rubbish, or by committing small theft. Prostitution, especially for girls, is also a source of income.
Their bed is the sidewalk; their blanket, the sky; their food, often cheap drugs (glue, gasoline). Abandoned and pursued, they have no life befitting a human being. Without education and training, they have no prospects.
Für die Strassenkinder 
