Street Children Face Sexual Exploitation

Children who live on the streets are not only subjected to harsh weather elements such as high daytime temperatures in summer and biting cold in winter but sexual exploitation as well.

Scripture Union in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo team leader Sikholiwe Ncube said both girls and boys are sexually abused. Said Ncube:

For children living on the streets, sexual exploitation is one of the violations that they face.

Both boys and girls are exploited. These children are usually exploited by people of older age.

On the other hand, girls are exploited by boys of the same age.

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If you are a girl child and you are in the streets you are more vulnerable and need more help.

Usually, at first, these children might see or receive this sexual exploitation as abuse, but with time they accommodate it as a way of life.

So that you find these children selling sex for survival, especially at night in bars, and street corners.

Ncube said her organisation tries to help girls who would have been abused in various ways. She added:

People report such cases to us and we then move the child out of the street and help them through alternative care from different ministries that we work with or our partners.

We also do sexual reproductive health awareness programs with them.

When we find kids that have already been sexually exploited we seek competent service providers like clinics or hospitals.

At times we do counselling sessions with them.

The Scripture Union is an interdenominational Christian organisation registered as a welfare organisation.

It works with homeless children in trying to find solutions to the problems they face.

More: The Standard