Children on the streets of Georgia lack access to education, health, and protection services, study says
Tbilisi. UNICEF presented a new study regarding children living and working on the streets of Georgia.
''The research reveals that some groups of children live and move together in order to protect each other, to find places to sleep, to create spaces for leisure and entertainment, to cultivate friendship, and to cooperate in economic activities like petty trading, street begging, and petty crime. Other groups of children have internal structures that divide them into seniors/superiors and subordinates. Older children sometimes use younger children below age 14 (subordinate children) as ‘shields’ to avoid criminal prosecution, pushing them to carry out criminal activities and hand over the profits'', is noted in the study.
Source: unicef.ge
