An eight or nine year old with a dirty face, wearing torn jeans, shoes and a dirty T-shirt trying his best to stop one of the thousand cars so he can washing car windshields for a pittance of pay. This young man struggled to carry a large container with soap and water and a small red carpet which he held with his small left hand. His facial expression revealed fear, doubt and resignation. Inside I wanted to cry and at the same time I wanted to take him with me and give him a cup of warm milk. It looked like he hadn't eaten anything in days. As he approached our car the other drivers cursed him and told him to disappear from this world. With a sad look, he continued his journey to our car. His large dark brown eyes expressed pain, dismay and desperation. Heartbreaking stories similar to this one occur more commonly in the urban metropolises of Mexico and Latin America. These children suffer from family abandonment and the country's economic difficulties; they are also deprived of healthcare, exposed to violence, drugs and HIV through sexual promiscuity. Street kids don't choose to live in abandoned buildings, cardboard boxes, parks or on the street itself; they are forced to face life challenges that no other human being has experienced for many years. Therefore, street children should be helped due to constant marginalization. Street children are not always seen as helpless children, on the contrary they are often seen as delinquents and worthless children. “...when the child reaches puberty: he is then described as a 'delinquent, lazy, homosexual, aggressive and annoying, addicted to drugs', and therefore that he 'belongs to an institution.'” (http://www .users .global...... middle of paper ......while experiencing illness and poverty Children must overcome all the challenges of being alone on the streets. These children have fewer resources and opportunities. and so it is It is up to us to change, if not improve, their life on the streets. We can achieve this by creating shelters and perhaps helping children to grow up by all means. These children are simply children and should be treated as acceptably as they are others the world Magazine. November 2001. Web. 30 January 2010. "Mexico: street children at high risk of AIDS - The body: the complete resource on HIV/AIDS. 31 January 2010". de Desarrollo. Web. 30 January. 2010. .