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Main Problems Faced on the Streets – Kampong Cham 2009
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DrugProblems
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In Kampong Cham one category of street related problems – health – particularly stands
out when analysing the survey data. In this year’s CSCN profile health related issues
accounted for 50.7 percent, compared to only 8.8 percent last year. According to Mith
Samlanh in Kampong Cham, this tendency is a reflection of the long periods that the
street children/youth spent on the streets (see analysis of time spent) – most issues are
caused by bad hygiene such as skin infections etc. The second most frequent answer
was related to violence at 20.9 percent, closely followed by Bong Thom at 19.4 percent
- both interrelated categories. Comparing these figures to last year there has been
a positive trend regarding the number of violence cases from 35.1 percent in 2008,
however, problems associated with Bong Thom has gone up, although not equally as
much, from 12.3 percent in 2008. The number of street children/youth using drugs or
other substances remains at the same relatively low level as last year at 7 percent.
More than one in four of the street children/youth (28.4 percent) in Kampong Cham
were not able to provide any information on the problems they were faced with on the
streets.
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