Beginning street life: Factors contributing to children working and living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1520-1536

  Plummer, Mary L ^a   Kudrati, Mustafa ^b   Dafalla El Hag Yousif, Nassrin ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Africa; Poverty; Street child; Sudan; Violence; Working child

Indexed keywords

EID: 35848944145     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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