STREET KIDS

 Across the Nigeria, there are categories of children who neither feel good nor happy. Their outlook paints a good picture of their state of helplessness.

The children  appear unkempt and totally hopeless regarding their future. In their unclean clothes, they find homes in the most filthy and awkward places like abandoned buildings, under overhead bridges and streets.

. Usually, they retire to these “abodes” at dusk and dash out early in the morning before the prying eyes of security agents or the rightful owners of the structures turn out for business. In Nigeria, the future of Kids most especially the one the streets, their future is very tiny to be successful in life.

Idowu Ogunleye, a Photojournalist who documents Street Kids across my country Nigeria, keep asking, what are the future of this Street Kids.

The United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported in May 2005 that over 7.3 million Nigerian children of school age were not in schools. This ugly trend has its own social consequences, one of which is the spiraling proportion of street urchins in the major towns and cities of Nigeria.