 Given
the economic growth in the Latin American and
the Caribbean region as a whole over the last
decade, it is frightening that 90 million
children - or almost 50 percent of all children
on the continent - live in poverty. UNICEF
reports that there are 100 million street
children in the world, half of which are found
in Latin America. In Honduras and Nicaragua, it
is estimated that between 8 and 12 percent of
all children and youth below the age of 18 are
working and/or living in the streets. Due to
rapid urbanization, inequitable income
distribution, economic crises, natural disasters
and poverty, the number is likely to increase in
the near future.
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