Abstract: The appropriate emphasis of this paper is to examine “Living on the Street and the Challenges and prospect to secure their daily Subsistence in Urban Life of the Street Children in Kezira Dire Dawa”. The overall situation of street children living in Dire Dawa City Kezira Quarter would be evaluated to tackle their socio-economic and subsistence livelihood challenges and prospects. The researcher used both primary and secondary method of data collection, in which to collect primary sources interview, Focus Group Discussion and Observation were used. Interview was the most important tool to collect primary data in which collection was schedule with street children in the main street of Kezira, Dire Dawa. The interview was made with Key interview informants who were elders and other residents of the city in general and Kezira in particular. The other important tool of data collection was FGD in which about thirty participants in six groups. The children’s were advised to talk freely about their daily life in group. The observation was also important to view children’s life from the outsider view (etic view). Thus then, researcher made important observation in their daily life interaction in their natural setting. There were also secondary data sources in which the data obtained from written sources in which finally triangulated wit primary sources. The researcher used qualitative method of data analysis to investigate their daily subsistence life, and their socio-economic interaction. Therefore, this paper has exposed that the greater part of street children in the study area where to see fundamental factors such as pull factor and push factors have contributed for their streetism, but poverty which caused by environmental degradation, drought and famine was found to be the main push factors for children to move to the street who especially came from the rural surrounding adjacent areas of East Oromia, East Hararghe Zone Woredas. This study also further describe that street children livelihood in Kezira who were vulnerable to wide range of violations of their rights, and the children also made plenty of crimes in the city. The children’s were abused physically and sexually in which they develop the unconstructive outlook towards the society, in order to alleviate this social troubles of the children. Thus, so many children are still on the street of Kezira Quarter Street seemed to look for help. In this study the researcher tried to show valid efforts have to be made to evaluate the widespread problem of street children vulnerable life on the street of Kezira.
Keywords: Living on the Street, Challenges, daily Subsistence, Urban Life, Street Children.
Title: Living on the Street and the Challenges and Prospects to secure their daily Subsistence in Urban Life: The Case of Street Children in Kezira Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Author: Shambel Tufa Telila
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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