61. Street children abound. 62. Street children and young adults who come to the building near Taksim Square get a meal, a haircut and a bath while their clothes are laundered. 63. Street children roam many communities, increasing the threat of crime and political instability, DeCock said. 64. Street children are just one visible sign of poverty in African nations, and of how efforts to help them are sometimes defeated. 65. Street children, lured by tables of food, were counted the first night. 66. The costliest case was that of a street child, David Maina, whose jaw was torn off as he rode in a bus near the blast site. 67. The drama is filled with figures from everyday South Africa -- black matriarchs lamenting their wayward children, homeless street children, black-market hustlers. 68. The explosion of street children has been called the dark side of globalization, paralleling the rise in unemployment and poverty levels in many Third World countries. 69. The government also detained vagrants and street children to keep them out of sight of the evaluation committee. 70. The films are fiction but have an authenticity because the actors are themselves the criminals, gang members and street children they portray. |