Cebu City Task Force on Street Children

Steve Coan

This review presents a critique of the academic and welfare on street children in Cebu, Philippines. Cebu, with supporting evidence from studies of homelessness in industrialized Cebu Provence's. The turn of the twenty-first century has seen a sea change of perspective in support concerning street youth in Cebu. This review examines the category “Cebu street children” and of research that focuses on the identifying characteristics of a street lifestyle rather than on the children themselves and the depth or diversity of their actual experiences. Second, it relates the change of approach to a powerful human rights disclosure, the legal and conceptual framework provided by the Cebu City Task Force on Street Children focusing on the Rights of the street children! Which emphasizes children's rights as citizens and recognizes their capabilities to enact change in their own lives. Finally, this review examines specifically on the risks to health associated with street or homeless lifestyles. Risk assessment that assigns street children to a category “at risk” should not overshadow helpful analytical approaches focusing on children's resiliency and long-term career life prospects. This review thus highlights some of the challenging academic and practical questions that have been raised regarding current understandings of street children in Cebu. I would like to thank all the personal of the task force on street children of Cebu for their continued support of our greatest asset...our youth..May God bless you in all your endeavors. I will continue to support this foundation...no matter what! Steve coan

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