Lack of street children study in the past as well as in the present makes it difficult to
estimate the number of children in the Kathmandu valley. However, it is thought that
the number is increasing because of high pull factor but it is not possible to quantify
the increasing rate. Every year hundreds of children leave their home and migrate to
urban areas for a better future. However due to lack of contacts and relatives in the
cities they ultimately find themselves homeless, helpless and forced to be on street.
Having no other alternative, they then choose to spend free life onto street and do
what they feel themselves appropriate.