आरंभ - NEW BEGINNING

DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR STREET CHILDREN

“ MAKING THE INVISIBLE, VISIBLE.”

SUB – RSM
POOJA JARIWALA – 201703101710021
CLASS – A
DATE – 27/10/2021 INSTITUTE - RBSA
INTRODUCTION
WHO ARE STREET CHILDREN?
Child every person aged between 5 and 17 years old. As they are
considered to be the foundation stone in society construction children's do
have a basic needs in their own life that must be provided for them to have
an appropriate one. When we look on children's around the global we see
that they're facing many problems, like; poverty, violence, poor education,
early marriage, homeless.

STREET CHILDREN The circumstances for street children can be very

complex and there can be lots of different reasons for their situation. Lots
of institutions seemed to discus and help the difficulty of street children,
one among them is UNICEF.

As they defined street children's three conditions:

1. "street living children: children who ran away from their families and
live alone on the street.
2. Children from street families children who survive the streets with
their families.
3. Street working children, children who spend most of their time on the
streets, fending for themselves, but returning home on a daily basis."

Majority of us are blessed when we return home from school, colleges, and
offices, there is a family waiting for us which takes our tiredness. But all
are not that fortunate. Many children in India and worldwide are deprived
of this feeling of family and home. These children are called street children
who spend their life near bus stations. Railway stations, markets, on
footpaths and pavements etc.

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INTRODUCTION

STREET CHILDREN IN INDIA:

In India, nearly one out of every three persons in urban areas lives below
poverty line. Poor, marginalized street children are a common sight. They
exist without education, care, affection and guidance. These children
experience abuse from nearly everyone.

The community treats them with contempt, they are harassed and accused
by the police, and they are even brutalized by older street children. They
fall easy victim to drug dealers, who turn them into addicts and force them
to peddle drugs. They are exploited by parents and employers alike. In
short, street children in India are inadequately clothed, fed or loved; they
are victims of family violence, including physical and social abuse. India is
home to more than 444 million children below 18 years, equal to approx.
37 percent of India’s total population (Census of India, 2011).

Together youth (those in 18-25 years age group) and children comprise of
more than 52 percent of the population, enough to define India as young
country.

In 1994, UNICEF estimated that there were 11 million street children in

India. This number is said to be a drastic under-estimation. The India
Embassy estimated 314,700 street children in cities like Bombay, Calcutta,
Madras, and Kanpur, Bangalore and Hyderabad and around 100,000 street
children in Delhi.

Although street children are a well known reality in many countries, yet it
is difficult to provide a clear picture of them. These children spend
intermittent periods with their family or alone and move from one city to
another, depending on the time of the years and their circumstances. Since
many do not have identity papers, or birth certificate, there are no official
statistics on their numbers.

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PROBLEM TREE

Children who lives on the street of india, who have no chance of

getting out of the spiral of poverty.

Young people
without any Violence and
preparation to face
life
street crime
EFFECT
S
Begging and Diseases and
street sale drug addiction
Sexual abuse
and
prostitution

widespread
child labor in
india
lack of
unstructured
opportunities
families and
for children to
homes
study

high poverty
abusive home
and CAUSES situations
unemployment

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CHARACTERISTICS OF STREET
CHILDREN
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Mainly they are with bad physical appearance (wearing only lower clothes,
stinking body odor, appearing sick, uncombed hair, without slippers, lying
on platform). They wore tattered clothes, hardly covers their body,
oversized clothes given by the people as a gesture of sympathy or charity.

HEALTH AND HYGIENE

The street children use water pipeline on the tracks for cleaning and
bathing or river. They even do not take shower for a long time. Street
children also exposing to other type of disease because of the harsh
environment where they live. As for treatment, it depends how much
money street children can afford when one of them become sick.

DRUG ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE USE

They are usually found consuming alcohol and other substance. To fulfill
their substance need, they get involved in petty crimes and exploited by
vendors and older children.

PLACE OF ABODE

The congregation of street children is street, unoccupied dwelling, railway

stations, bust stands, traffic signal, waste land public places. Street children
usually do not have a permanent place to sleep. They sleep on the streets,
pavements near shops, under bridge, benches, bus stand, pipes, whatever
place they find to spend night according to weather

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CHARACTERISTICS OF STREET CHILDREN

A SET OF LIVING CONDITIONS

They live in groups and gangs, they have their own code of conduct to
avoid professional rivalry. They help each other; sometime they are seen
protecting small children. There is no social security, physical protection
for these children. After spending a great amount of street they are not
willing to give up street life. They commit petty crimes like pick
pocketing, snatching bags, and stealing railway property. They use abusive
language with each other mostly.

FOOD PATTERNS

They mostly depend on food thrown by pantry car, left over by passengers,
stealing food from pantry of luxury trains. When they do not get food from
cited sources, they scavenge bins. The children who are from localities
sometimes eat food at home.

A SET OF WORKING CONDITIONS

Younger children mainly do begging for their lively hood. The older
children start working some jobs like selling bottles, repairing chain and
zipper, selling paper soap, selling tobacco

FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PHENOMENA OF

THE STREET CHILDREN:
1. Poverty
2. Domestic Violence
3. Emotional and physical abuse
4. Dysfunctional Family
5. Mental Health
6. Lack of Parenting Skills
7. Socio-Cultural Factors
8. Parental Drinking
9. Poor quality of Education

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NEED FOR THE PROJECT

Global problems such as poverty, urbanization, globalization, among

others, have contributed to the migration of people in the towns and cities.
The number is growing, and india becomes one of the notable country
currently struggling with the issue.

The consequence has been an increased rate of dropout from schools, and
even some children do not have an opportunity to register in the learning
institution. If the situation is not curtailed, it might cause more harms in
the future in regards to the lack of skilled labor to build the economy.
Street children are a part of our society and this part of children are always
deprived. Street is dangerous for them because of pollution, poison, and
lack of security and safety, drags, and numerous sexual exploitations and
dangerous diseases.

We need such project,

• To give them proper environment, education and food and
recreational spaces.
• To provide the safe and secure environment to the homeless children.
• Reduce the number of vulnerable children from the streets of india.
• To ensure such children have access to early childhood education.
• Enhance proper clothing, nutrition, and healthcare for the children.
• Easy the government burden of the street children.
• To reduce child labor in the streets of india.
• Create employment opportunities to the locals of the cities
• To develop their mental, social and physical health.
• To encourage them for the self occupation.

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AIM AND OBJECTIVE
AIM

The aim is to understand street children life and aim is try to provide them
a positive environment for the targeted group of children where they can
grow and find a purpose in their life, and they can learns to interact with
others around them. As they develop their own individuality. And also gain
skills to communicate with other people and understand what they want to
do in future.

OBJECTIVES
• To provide safe and homely environment to children.
• Designing spaces in such way that they can easily adapt .
• Create interesting spaces that would help them to grow.
• To provide primary education for their growth.
• Create interesting spaces for different and positive experience.
• Provide street and working children, a childhood that they never
experienced and help them to become useful members of the society.
• To provide secure place where street children can play and enjoy their
childhood.
• To provide health, recreational and education.
• To provide training and encourage their interest so that they can
economically sustain themselves.
• To provide counseling for their better development.

RESEARCH QUESTION

• Role of architecture in the development center of the street children.

• How architecture spaces designed for the different communities and
how architecture spaces heal them.
• How spaces can be designed according to their age and need ?

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SCPOE AND LIMITATION

SCOPE

1. To Design a center that provides overall development at one place.

2. To design spaces for 3-18 age groups.
3. To design spaces that provides a sense of security to children.
4. To design interconnected spaces with appropriate circulation.
5. To design spaces such that encourages interaction between different
age.
6. To design areas such that it creates emotional and social bond with
children groups.
7. To design spaces for their Physical, Emotional, Cognitive and Social
development8 Study deals within Urban context only.

LIMITATION
• The research dose not include any strict government policies made for
such center.

LIST OF CASE EXAMPLE

• Child development center (cod), Madhapur, Telangana

• ummeed child development center, Mumbai
• D’soul child development center, Chennai, tamil nadu
• St.jude india childcare center, Mumbai.

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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

• Background study
1

• Interviews and surveys

2

• Data collection
3

• Case studies ( live and literature)

4

• Site selection and case identification

5

• Analytical study
6

• Site analysis
7

• Programme formulation
8

• Concept and zoning development

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• Development of design
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REFERENCES
https://theirworld.org/explainers/street-children

https://www.streetchildren.org/about-street-children/

https://theirworld.org/explainers/street-children

https://www.actionaidindia.org/blog/childhood-on-the-str
eets/

https://www.firstpost.com/tag/street-children

https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/93-india-the-forg
otten-children-of-the-cities.html

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/children-of-the-streets-of-ne
w-delhi

https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/node/5484/p
df/5484.pdf

https://www.e-ir.info/2012/12/11/characteristics-of-street
-children/

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