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Characteristics and Personal Social Networks of the on-the-Street, of-the-Street, Shelter and School Children in Eldoret, Kenya

Department of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Moi University, PO Box 4606, Eldoret, Kenya.ayuku{at}africaonline.co.ke

Charles Kaplan

Graduate School of Social Work, University of Houston, TX, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Herman Baars

Marten de Vries

Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Most of the street-based children are not educated beyond primary school and their living conditions are based on begging and doing odd jobs in the market and streets. Forty-six percent of the on-the-street children live with one parent, and 97 percent of the of-the-street children have lost contact with their parents. The on-the-street children have a higher percentage of family sector networks than the of-the-street children and the shelter or institutionalized children. Generally, school children still have strong family ties.

International Social Work, Vol. 47, No. 3, 293-311 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0020872804041428


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