Why Become a Ragpicker or Street Child


The slum area around Agape Bible Fellowship.
Who would become a Street Child or Ragpicker by choice? This was a question frequently asked by us. Several factors emerged as the provoking reasons. This life-style is forced onto these children for survival. They lack the basic needs that most of us enjoy; they come from violent and broken homes where parental drunkenness, beatings, starvation and deprivation of security and love are daily occurrences. Some are forced to work and earn money, a few are influenced by peer pressure, and some are orphans fighting a daily battle to survive.