Homeless children - help homeless children through Mexico Child Link

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Mexican Street children
Street children frequently have a disability

 

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What are street children?

 

What are learning disabilities?

 

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Why do Mexican children become homeless?


Reasons for homelessness in Mexico

  • Divorce or separation of the parents
  • Family and domestic violence
  • Personal illness of parent(s) or carers
  • Alcohol and/or drug and solvent abuse by parents or the child
  • Neglect and abuse of the child leading to the child deciding to leave home
  • One or both parents in prison
  • Child unable to work and contribute to the family income. (children with a handicap are more likely to be abandoned)
  • Parental lack of literacy skills and schooling
  • Poor social skills and life skills of the parents
  • Mental health, mental handicap, and/or physical health problems in either the parents or the child.
  • Poverty or unemployment
  • Parents unable to pay rent
  • Emigration, economic migration of the parents to the US.
  • Single parents unable to combine work and childcare

The origins of homeless children in a wider sense are rooted in the general issues of poverty and income distribution in Mexico.


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Mexico Child Link is a UK registered charity which sponsors projects in Atlixco & Puebla, Mexico for homeless, abandoned and orphan children with learning disability, many of whom are ex street children.

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