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Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Street children spent the holiday season alone, gathered in the cold in Mexico City, marginalized, forgotten, excluded from society and surrounded by filth, rats and roaches. Poverty and violence led them to live on the streets. From a note sent to Agenzia Fides by the Fundación Pro Niños de la Calle, it is clear that there is no exact figure of how many children and young people live in these conditions. The NGO assists more than 130 in a context where they can be accompanied by educators who try to give them psychological support to prevent them from falling into a state of deep depression. The latest figures date back to 2012 when it recorded 4,014 street people, among them 300 children.
They are victims of physical, sexual and emotional violence. They are poor, abandoned, humiliated and despised. Accused, tortured, stigmatized and imprisoned unjustly. They are children who have been denied the right to dignity, play, justice, freedom. As they say "the street is my family". (AP) (Agenzia Fides 02/01/2015)
