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Home Last Updated: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:40 am (KSA) 08:40 am (GMT) From Egypt Gazette: Egypt’s street children in need of help
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Many tiny children, like this four-year-old girl, are forced to work by their parents or other people. inShare.0By A’laa Koddous Allah
CAIRO - In a crowd, it’s difficult to spot the little street children, but they are there, and their numbers are growing.
Ziko Reda, a 15-year-old street child, spends all day in the street rather than going to school, in order to earn some money for his family.
“I don’t want to go to school and I'm not interested in education,” says Reda, whose clothes are torn and filthy. “School doesn’t bring me money,” says Reda, not realising that it is not a matter of what one earns but how the money is earned.
Reda, who cleans cars stuck in traffic jams in Nasr City, adds that money, not education, buys everything you need in life, explaining that his father and mother are divorced and he has to earn money for his mother, and his younger brother and sister.
“I’m responsible for my family. I have to bring home at least LE150 ($24.85) per day,” he stresses, while scanning the traffic for cars to clean.
Reda works for 15 hours per day, only eats one fuul (broad bean) or taa’miya sandwich during all that time; he must then return home with dinner for his family.
“I wake up every day at 6:00am and begin my work at 7:00. I return home again at 10pm with everything my family needs and give my mother whatever money’s left over.”
Home Last Updated: Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:40 am (KSA) 08:40 am (GMT) From Egypt Gazette: Egypt’s street children in need of help
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Many tiny children, like this four-year-old girl, are forced to work by their parents or other people. inShare.0By A’laa Koddous Allah
CAIRO - In a crowd, it’s difficult to spot the little street children, but they are there, and their numbers are growing.
Ziko Reda, a 15-year-old street child, spends all day in the street rather than going to school, in order to earn some money for his family.
“I don’t want to go to school and I'm not interested in education,” says Reda, whose clothes are torn and filthy. “School doesn’t bring me money,” says Reda, not realising that it is not a matter of what one earns but how the money is earned.
Reda, who cleans cars stuck in traffic jams in Nasr City, adds that money, not education, buys everything you need in life, explaining that his father and mother are divorced and he has to earn money for his mother, and his younger brother and sister.
“I’m responsible for my family. I have to bring home at least LE150 ($24.85) per day,” he stresses, while scanning the traffic for cars to clean.
Reda works for 15 hours per day, only eats one fuul (broad bean) or taa’miya sandwich during all that time; he must then return home with dinner for his family.
“I wake up every day at 6:00am and begin my work at 7:00. I return home again at 10pm with everything my family needs and give my mother whatever money’s left over.”