JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. The overall situation of female street children years engaged in commercial sex work in Dire Dawa - Ethiopia : survey in case study with special reference to child prostitution Mekuria, Melkem Lengereh. Master thesis. Metadata Show metadata. Appears in the following Collection Spesialpedagogikk []. Different causes can propel children towards street life and street activities.
One of the street activities available for female street children is prostitution. As one of the underdeveloped and poor countries, economic problem in Ethiopia is the major cause for child prostitution. The strong relationship between poverty and prostitution is stated as, as long as there is poverty, prostitution will exist. As long as the root is wet, the tree survives Gedu, , p.
Though poverty is the major reason for child prostitution, it can not be the only cause. For this reason, the study was attempted to look into the overall situation of female street children 11 18 engaged in prostitution in Dire Dawa town Ethiopia. In conducting this descriptive research, the two main objectives were; identifying if street child prostitutes have their own special educational needs or not and to expose their overall situation to the rest of the society.
Their overall situation in this study is all about their general background, their current situations and the possible consequences of child prostitution. In studying the overall situation of street child prostitutes, triangulation of methods as well as designs were implemented. In this regard, the combination of two designs survey and case study was used.
The different methods implemented in the study are interview, questionnaire, focus group discussion and informal observation. Instruments such as interview guide, questionnaires, focus group discussion guide and log book were used for data collection. The number of informants participated in the study were 62 street child prostitutes, 2 key persons from the society and an expert from women s affair office.
