Homeless children controlled by gangs: report

By Jane Chen | May 25, 2010, Tuesday |

Online Edition

MORE than 80 percent of homeless children in south China's Guangdong Province are or were controlled by criminal gangs, today's Guangzhou Daily reported.

Citing a report by the province's women's association, the report said there are 112,200 children in the province who are classified as needy children with no relatives to take care of them.

Some are orphans while some are from single-parent families. Others are living alone as their parents are prisoners or working in other cities.

To help the children, Guangdong Women's Federation Association will launch a program next Monday to recruit public carers for needy children.

About 150,000 parents have volunteered to help 250,000 such children in the past three years, the association said.

Numbers of needy children are on the rise in Guangdong, according to the association's vice chairwoman Yang Jianzhen.

About 20 percent of the needy children are not covered by the province's medical system and about 80 percent were controlled by criminal gangs, she said.

Poverty and abnormal families made some children feel abandoned, so some turned to criminal gangs for attention and job offers, she said.

There are 8,666 delinquents in Guangdong Province, according to the association data.

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