Title of the research: Exploring nutritional status of the Street Children around the Sai Temple Research Team:
Emojani Shrestha Sanjana Singh Nutan Ananda
Introduction: The present study attempts to understand nutritional status of street children living around Sai Temple at Lodhi Colony. As defined by UNICEF, there are three types of street children.
Street Living Children: Children who ran away from their families and live alone on the streets Street Working Children: Children who spend most of their time on streets, fending for themselves but returning home on a regular basis. Children from street Families: Children who live on the streets with their families.
Under nutrition is a form of malnutrition. Lack of proper nutrition often causes poor growth in children making them look smaller and shorter than children of same age.
Children are living their life on the street along with their parents or with their guardians or in a group. We have considered children below 18 years. There are various reason responsible for being these children on the street. Most of the children are on the street with their parents or with their guardians, if parents are dead. They spend most of their time playing and roaming around the street. Due to poverty, they do not get enough nutritious diet on time leading under nutrition. Our study has focused on the study of under Rationale: This study aimed to explore the living condition of street children with special reference to their nutritional status and tried to identify the factors affecting their health. Literature Review: A number of studies has already been done on street children highlighting their living condition, their health status etc. The Human Development Report of the UNDP (1993) shows that our country has the greatest number of street children. It is reported that New Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta have around 2 Lakhs street children each and Bangalore has about 45,000 street children. The study(first of its kind in Delhi) done by “Save the Children” a NGO working for children’s right and the Institute for Human Development has