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It is a known fact that poverty is one of the most important factor which brings children on streets.Developing countries where poverty is on verge, no infrastructure, health care and social services are out of sight, growing number of street children is inevitable in pursuit of basic needs. Pakistan shares same fate, a state where more than half of population lives at poverty/below poverty line.
Children at a very young age when burdened with economic responsibilities try to find out ways and means to over come such pressures may be through avoidance as running way from such situation or finding out ways to generate most as soon as possible. Both of these behaviors result in their exploitation by becoming a victim in hands of those who are more powerful. Further consequences provoke a vicious circle of abuse in motion where the child has to face the worst and he is labeled a street child.
Landing on the street seems to be a pleasant experience at first, a sense of freedom, curiosity fueled by passion to crush the ghost past under feet, sadly when reality emerges into realization life unfolds its horrible wings. Might is right seems to exert its effects and survival becomes the crucial concern for a street child. Struggling for survival a child faces a vareity of challanges and expsosed to every possible danger. To escape from bitter circumstances a child finds shelter in drugs which is always considered as a common practive and consequently fall into the leap of miserable death. That's how a child ends up his life leaving this world with broken dreams and questions of his identity. | 
