By Daily News Reporter in Dodoma
POOR living
conditions in some villages in Dodoma region is a major reason that
forces many children to leave their homes in search of alternative
livelihood including begging in the capital city.
That was concluded
by a recent survey conducted by Railway Children Africa (RCA), a
subsidiary of Railway Children UK-an international charity that fights
for CLWS.
RCA conducted its
survey in collaboration with other partners to find out the number of
street children in Tanzania's in six regions including Dodoma, where
they found out that the population of Children Living and Working in the
Streets (CLWS) is rather small in comparison to the other cities that
were surveyed.
The survey
according to RCA Advocacy Manager, Rose Kaguo, was conducted in the
regions of Dodoma, Arusha, Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya and Mwanza.
In Dodoma, most
CLWS were males, with females only accounting for 12per cent. Notably,
most of the male CLWS were aged 11-18, while among the females more were
aged 11-14.
Counters did not
find any small children aged 0-6 at night. While males were distributed
across the ages, 93per cent of females were aged 15-18, suggestive of
their involvement in sex work at night.
The findings
further suggest that during the day, two thirds of male CLWS engaged in
some form of business, whether fixed or moving, while a third engages in
begging.
Over half of the female CLWS were idling in the streets, while only 18per cent were engaged in some form of business activity.
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