Antisocial Habits Among Ragpickers


Streetchildren using drugs.

• They are involved with drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling, and unhealthy sexual habits.
  
  
• Since their income is less than their expenses, due to bad habits, they are perpetual debtors to the retail scrap dealers.
  
  
• They participate in stealing, street-fighting, and delinquent activities.
  
  
• Dirty, they are unwelcome guests at weddings, social gatherings, and shopping zones.
  
  
• They are physically vulnerable to health problems and infectious skin diseases.
  
  
• They are victimized socially through poverty, illiteracy, and rejection.
  
  
• With no facilities available for bathing or laundry, they are forced to live in filth and squalor.
  (They have no education in Personal Hygiene).