The city of Rio de Janeiro is a human town, despite the well known violence. People live close together and share a sense of care for each other. Street children walk in the streets of Lapa.

photo: Ton Hendriks/Hollandse Hoogte

This chapter is relatively short but densely packed with references and themes.

The list of gamin-animal analogies continues: he was compared to a sparrow, a fly, (there was something else, but I don't remember exactly), and now he is likened to a frog and a gnat.

There is a brief mention of schooling. In one of the previous chapters, Hugo lamented that the ancien régime was not interested in half-educated children, and here the gamin is portrayed as the kind of kid who sometimes "knows how to read, sometimes he knows how to write; he always knows how to daub." Some of them probably had the chance to receive basic schooling before losing their homes or families.

There are several political references. For example, the line "from 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey" refers to Louis XVIII, who was corpulent and thus compared to a turkey. And @dolphin1812 has already nicely explained pear reference for Louis Philippe.

Hugo's treatment of Louis Philippe is actually quite intriguing. This "last king," who was one of the main targets of the June Rebellion, is portrayed here as a nice man with a tendency for self-irony:  "The pear is on that also," said he, referring to his own image on the coin. Furthermore, there will be a whole chapter on Louis Philippe where Hugo discusses him as essentially a good person.

It's amusing how the gamin's unattainable aspirations are described in terms of high and low: he always desires "to overthrow the government and to have his trousers sewed up again."

The gamin is also remarkably perceptive about Paris policemen, and “can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to meet.”   "He studies their habits and has special notes on each one of them. He can read the souls of the police like an open book" — I think it can be a reference to Gavroche's interaction with Javert.

Even countries with large populations, such as India, rarely have healthy infants and toddlers who need foreign parents. India’s large and growing middle class, at home and in the diaspora, faces fertility issues like those of their developed-world counterparts. They too are looking for healthy babies to adopt; some experts think that these millions of middle-class families could easily absorb all available babies. The country’s pervasive poverty does leave many children fending for themselves on the street. But "kids are not on the street alone at the age of 2," Cantwell, the child protection consultant, says. "They are 5 or 6, and they aren’t going to be adopted." That’s partly because most of these children still have family ties and therefore are not legally available for adoption, and partly because they would have difficultly adjusting to a middle-class European or North American home. Many of these children are deeply marked by abuse, crime, and poverty, and few prospective parents are prepared to adopt them

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Street children - Rwanda

My name is Babul. People call me Babu. My father is a fisherman. He stays up all night fishing in the deep sea, selling at the fishery in the morning. I live in a nearby hut. I am in the fourth grade in the government school on the opposite side of the road. Now school is closed due to Covid.

I don't want to choose my father's profession. I want to be a professional footballer. I wish one day I would play football in a Barcelona jersey like Messi. He is my Idol. And if I can play under coach Messi, my joy will be limitless. Although Barcelona is preferred in club football, I want to lead Bangladesh at the international level.

I want to lift the World Cup trophy as the captain of Bangladesh in front of billions of spectators all over the world. I want to rejoice in the joy of world victory.

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I slumped in my saddle. I hated having this argument with others, even more so when they seemed like they might be sensible. I squinted so I could see Jayat’s face better in the shadows. “I know they are cruel. See here. My mother sold me as a slave when I was only six. It was because I was only one mouth too many, and only a girl. I understood that. The part I minded was where they sold me. They brought me all the way from Yanjing to Chammur. Why didn’t they just sell me in Yanjing? At least I was born there, and I knew the language.”

“You would have liked it if they sold you before they left?” Jayat sounded shocked.

“It would have made more sense,” I answered. “In Chammur I was a stupid slave who could barely talk. I had to run away, my master beat me so much. Then I lived on the street. You really see the good side of people that way. They chase you from their garbage heaps with brooms and rakes. They dump chamber pots on your head. They scream ‘thief!’ when you walk by, they steal what little you have, they kick you when they pass...For every person who did me a kindness, I knew twenty who left bruises on me.”

   —  Melting Stones (Tamora Pierce)

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I like the vibes gypsey people and street children give me: theyre free like the wind but tied up by prejudice.

After a couple of grimmer chapters, Hugo returns to his humorous tone. The main theme revolves around the criteria of belonging or not belonging to the ‘cast’ of gamins. It appears that being slightly different (such as being left-handed or having a squint), experiencing a dangerous accident (being cut "to the very bone"), or witnessing an unforgettable misadventure were the most important factors.

Hugo presents the section about gamins watching executions on the Place de Grève and about guillotine, with its amusing names, as a joke. It portrays the street children laughing in the face of death, potentially even their own (as from the previous chapter we know that “All crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child”). They are not terrified but curious beyond measure. Interestingly, Hugo, unlike many of his educated contemporaries, does not judge the act of watching executions by the crowds as vulgar, uncivilized and barbarous. He is once again rather sympathetic towards popular tastes.

And the last comment. “In the brotherhood of gamins Voltaire is not known”, claims Hugo here, but if I am not mistaken, Gavroche will be singing about Voltaire while collecting bullets, so the author is a bit inconsistent.

(Lovely late eighteenth-century earrings-guillontines)

23,000 street children identified across country being rehabilitated: Official 

The identification process was carried out on 'Bal Swaraj', a website where information about such children is uploaded and tracked in order to rehabilitate them, a senior official said.

NEW DELHI: As many as 23,000 street children identified across the country with the help of a web portal are currently being rehabilitated, officials said on Friday.

The identification process was carried out on ‘Bal Swaraj’, a website where information about such children is uploaded and tracked in order to rehabilitate them, a senior official said.

According to officials, these children are categorised into three groups.

The first category consists of children who have either run away from their homes or been abandoned by their families and are living on the streets alone.

The second category comprises children living on the streets with their families.

The third category includes children who live in slums and are out on the streets during the day but return to their homes at night, they said.

Out of the 23,000 street children, 53 per cent stay on the streets with their families, 43 per cent stay on the street during the day and then return to their homes at night and 4 per cent live alone on the streets, officials said.

The rehabilitation process in all three categories is different. While children who are alone are sent to shelter homes, those who live with their families in slums are linked to welfare schemes, they said.

A majority of children who live on the streets with their families include those who have moved to a bigger city in search of better opportunities.

Such children are repatriated to their villages and linked to welfare schemes there, officials added.

Explaining the rescue and rehabilitation process, the officials said when a child is rescued and presented in front of the child welfare committee (CWC), a social investigation report and an individual care plan are prepared.

After that, a committee gives recommendations for rehabilitation.

The last two steps consist of linking the child with welfare schemes and then following up on him or her, they added.

What is wrong to be born on World? Why this negligence? street children পৃথিবী তে জন্ম নেয়া কি ভুল ছিল? কেন এই অবহেলা

What is wrong to be born on World? Why this negligence? street children পৃথিবী তে জন্ম নেয়া কি ভুল ছিল? কেন এই অবহেলা