Street children
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Street children are poor and/or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the definition of street children is con
Street Child in Mombasa Kenya
Gavroche, a fictional character in the historical novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is inspired by the street children who existed in France in the 19th century.
Multiethnic group of "street gamins" in Istanbul (then known in English as Constantinople), 1921
Children sleeping in Mulberry Street, New York City, 1890 (Jacob Riis photo)
Orphans in the Soviet Union
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At certain periods the Soviet state had to deal with large numbers of orphans and other kinds of street children — due to a number of turmoils in the history of the country from its very beginnings. M
Street children
…million homeless children in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic due to the devastation from World War I and the Russian Civil War (see "Orphans in the Soviet Union"). Abandoned children formed gangs, created their own argot, and engaged in petty theft and prostitution. The causes of this phenomenon are varied, but…
Street children in Russia, 1920s
Street children in Russia, 1924
Red Army soldier with a child whose mother was killed in the war, Russia, 1943