street child

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street child - a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive"

waif

child, kid, minor, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry, tyke - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

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blur blurred blurriness blurry Child Fry Kid minor nestling nipper shaver small fry streetcar tiddler tike tyke waif youngster			According to Magdy Garas, who fronts the street children project at the leading NGO, CARITAS, "there is subsequently now much confusion in the field over whether a working child also constitutes a street child. NCCM puts Cairo street children at 5,500, says other numbers ... by Daily News Egypt (Egypt) Judy said: 'With the best will in the world, nobody can understand what it is like to be a street child unless they have been there themselves. Abandoned as a baby to fend alone.. now I help the world's forgotten ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) Gilfoyle, "Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900" For over half a century, the street child was an inescapable fixture of the nineteenth-century industrial city. Street-rats and gutter-snipes: child pickpockets and street culture ... by Journal of Social History			Stream tin Stream wheel Stream works streambed streamer streamer fly Streamful Streaminess streaming Streamless streamlet streamline streamline flow streamlined streamliner streamside streamy Stree Streek streel Streen Streep street street address street Arab street child street cleaner street clothes street corner street cred street credibility street cry street door street drug street fighter street furniture street girl street hockey street justice street lamp street lighting street luge street map street market street musician street name street organ street person street piano street plan street sign			street street street street street street street Street Activity Permit Office street address Street Address Guide Street Address Guide Area Street and Racing Technology Street and Urban Working Children Project street arab street Arabs Street Art Post-Graffiti Street Art Post-Graffiti Street Art Post-Graffiti Street Basketball Association, LLC Street Bike Freaks Street Bike Fury Street Book Street Books Street Broker Street Brokers Street car Street car Street Car Racing Street cars Street cars street child Street children street cleaner Street Cleansing Ambulance Truck street clothes Street Combat Karate Street concert Street concert Street concert street corner street cred street cred street credibility Street cries Street Crime Assertive Team Street Crime Working Group Street Crimes Arrest Team street cry Street dance Street directory Street Dogs of Nepal street door street doors street drug street drug street edge alternatives Street elbow street ell Street Expectation

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