Urban life and street children's health: Children's accounts of urban hardships and violence in Tanzania

Authors

Joe Lugalla, The Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Colleta Kibassa, UNICEF

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Description

The authors examine the dynamics of urban life and street children's health in the era of globalization and structural adjustments in Tanzania. They discuss the factors that push children out of their homes, how the children survive in streets, the hardships and violence they endure and how this affects their health. They argue that the impact of the legacy of colonial policies and some post-colonial development policies, the negative consequences of uncontrolled process of globalization, the impact of structural adjustments and the HIV/AIDS epidemic are simultaneously intensifying the situation of poverty in Tanzania. These processes are not only destroying families and communities that have for many years acted as safety nets for children in need, but are also manufacturing poor, helpless and powerless children most of whom resort to street life.

Publication Information

LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2003

Series

African Studies

ISBN

3-8258-6690-4

Keywords

Street children, structural adjustment programmes, poverty in Tanzania

Comments

This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.

Recommended Citation

Lugalla, J. , Kibassa, C. (2003). Urban life and street children's health: Children's accounts of urban hardships and violence in Tanzania.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/books/48