Debate on street children

If in several countries, not to say everywhere in the world, the problem of street children has persisted for decades, this phenomenon is recent in the Southern provinces. Indeed, solidarity and low demographics have always contributed to eradicating this phenomenon which, beyond street children, concerns vagrants, the mentally ill, and the homeless who populate the streets of almost all the cities of the South. But we have observed, for a few years, a clear increase in the number of street children and the mentally ill. The regional human rights commission of the Laâyoune-Smara region, aware of these problems, is trying to draw the attention of those responsible. It is in this context that it organised, on Wednesday 18 July, a study day on this problem, in order to draw the attention of the populations and the authorities and try to find solutions capable of eradicating thi…