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in the city, what affects the phenomenon produces, and in what ways these
effects can be minimized.
� To show how the lives of street children in the city compared with the
lives of children in normal family homes differ. The point is that by
focusing on the two groups of children, the study seeks to investigate the
extent to which the differences in the socio-economic backgrounds of the
groups account for the differences in the quality of life available to each
group.
� To provide the government through the ministry of social welfare, NGOs
1.4 Research questions
and other policy planners with reliable information on the true situation of
the street children phenomenon after the war and current, in order to
address their problems more seriously.
Generally, the purpose of this study is to determine the factors related to the street
children phenomenon in major cities of Sierra Leone. This study tries to answer the
following queries:
1. What are some of the factors that causes street children phenomenon
in Sierra Leone?
2. What are the factors that affect the lives of street children in Sierra
Leone?
3. What activities street children usually do?
4. How do the lives of street children differ or relate to the lives of
1.5 Hypothesis
children in normal family homes in the city?
The comparative study of street children and of children in normal family homes consists
a number of hypotheses related to the socio- economic conditions in which the two
groups of children live. These are the following hypotheses:
1. Children in the street do not face difficulty to adapt to life in the streets
2. Children in the street are not likely to be failures in society
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