Economic hardship was evaluated to have led most children to the street to work to support themselves and their families. There was also the realisation of a growing norm whereby children are expected to contribute to the economic sustenance of their families, thus, resulting in more and more parents sending their children to orphanage homes or work in the streets seeing nothing wrong with it.
Significantly, most children resort to streetism because of the economic activity they engage in.There is enough evident to conclude that the problem of child streetism in Kumasi and for that matter Ghana at large has seen very little intervention especially on the part of the state. With this, a philanthropist Solomon Darkwa has recommended that the state of Ghana designs and adopt a national policy to be implemented at the District levels to deal with the problem of child streetism. Also, NGOs, and churches , should strengthen their capacities to effectively address child streetism.
He made this known when donated some food items and musical instruments to Kiku children’s home in Kumasi.
Meanwhile the the manager of Kiku children’s home Samuel Takyi Mensah said, the children left on the street is very worrying .
He said, the orphanage homes sometimes consider their children since they have been abandoned by their family on the street.
