According to the definition of Ahmed Sedik and Mustafa Sami in the second publication of PDCR entitled “City Initiative (1) for the Protection of Street Children and Children Doing Marginal Work” , a street child is “every child, male or female, who lacks a place of residence, spends the night in places not appropriate for that for six months or more, whether he/she is defying their parents’ authority or that of their guardian, is forced into that status by one of the parents, or has escaped to the street as a result of family, economic, psychological, vocational, or educational conditions.” Sedik also puts forward a general definition of marginal work children that encompasses the following categories:

• Children working with the consent of their parents (either working on their own or together with the father or mother).

• Those working in marginal jobs with no specific vocational pattern, and are thus deprived of vocational and family care and often do not continue their education as a result.

• Some of those children leave their governorates in order to perform selling operations; they are forced to spend the night on the street in order to save transportation fees, often with the consent of their parents.

• Those children return to their homes after finishing selling operations in a state of physical and psychological exhaustion.

• Exploitative grown-up elements may appear in their places of work, and take away a proportion of the money they earn; or else some adults might collect the children to perform selling in their interest in return to a specific wage, often using force against the children..

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