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Time Spent on the Streets before Registration – Kampong Cham 2009
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The trend regarding how long the children/youth spend on the streets before getting
registered at the Mith Samlanh service centre in Kampong Cham points to a notable
result, with a relatively high share of the street children/youth spending more than
three years – 26.9 percent. The general result of the data analysis reveals that 16.4
percent of the children/youth spent less than one year, 61.3 percent spent one year
or more, and 22.4 percent were not able to provide information on the matter. The fact
that the children/youth spend relatively long periods of time on the streets indicates a
persistent need for them to provide an income for their families, given that most of them
are SWC.
Comparing the result to last year’s survey, there has been an increase in the percentage of
children/youth who spend more than one year on the streets from 53 percent to 61.3 percent.
This result reflects a general need to target the street children/youth population in Kampong
Cham. Also, the Mith Samlanh project is only in its initiating phase as it was launched being
launched in July 2005. According to the CSCN member analysis, a feasible explanation
of why almost one in four of the children/youth were unable to provide any information is
because a lot of them have difficulties evaluating the time that they spent on the streets.
CSCN
CSCN Street Children Profile 2009
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