| dc.description.abstract | This study was about the „Factors associated with the street children phenomenon in Ngozi District, Northern Burundi.‟ It was guided by three specific objectives that were set to identify the demographic factors associated with the street children phenomenon, to establish the socio- economic factors associated with the street children phenomenon and to establish household related factors associated with the street children phenomenon in Ngozi district Burundi.
The researcher adopted a cross sectional survey design employing the use of self administered questionnaires as the primary data collection tool while secondary data was collected through desk review of relevant related documents by doing archives analysis. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi square test for association by the use Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to aid in generation of results. The data was presented in form of frequency and percentages under form of tables, pie charts.
Socio-demographic factors such as age of respondents, location, education and family cohesion were statistically significant. i.e. Age (χ2=9.280, p-value=0.026); Location (χ2=12.237, p- value=0.001); Education (χ2=13.637, P-value=0.018) and Family cohesion (χ2=19.632, p- value=0.000); Street income availability was statistically significant (χ2=15.371, P-value=0.031); Of the household factors, domestic violence with (χ2=1.215, P-value=0.0241) and alcoholism in family with (χ2=1.454, P-value=0.0228) were statistically significant on the street children phenomenon.
Among the demographic factors, family cohesion was strongly associated with the street children phenomenon; street income availability was strongly associated with the street children. This could have attracted more street children since Burundi ranked as one of the 3rd world countries struggling with poverty; alcoholism in the family was also strongly associated with children ending up on the street. This could be due to lack of care from parents which lead to lack of basic needs.
The government should work together with civil society organizations to create family groups at village level. This would not only bring about development but also get some counseling on how to handle their families which in turn can bring about family cohesion.
The government should put in place a policy to barn all income on the street so that these street children can think of being repatriated with their families.
Also the government can put stringent measures on alcohol use especially on opening and closing of bars. | en_US |
