Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
THERE are hundreds of street children in Trinidad and Tobago, victims of grinding poverty, home violence, and other social and economic crises.
The Government’s social welfare system is skewed and makes no impact toward reducing the number of people living under the poverty line.
LITTLE Allon Ramdial never really stood a chance. Allon was born to a juvenile mom just over 16, and their home was a cramped room in a fishing facility, metres from Ortoire River, the country’s widest and deepest waterway.
THE arrest last week of a man for the alleged molestation of 40 boys more than 25 years ago deals with only one aspect of abuse at children’s homes.
THREE children were at her feet in the light drizzle, as she held a tiny cardboard poster at a street corner pleading for money to feed her family.