Children on the street: UNICEF breaks silence in a national disaster

He returns to school under the sign of humanitarian emergency

In his last barometer published at the end of August 2025, UNICEF reveals that 2,159 children slept on the street, on the eve of the school year. A figure of glaze that goes far beyond the results of previous years.

Behind this statistics, entire families forced to face the night by car, in a curtain or in the construction rooms, due to lack of space in emergency devices.

This reality, far from being marginal, illustrates the inability of public policies to protect the youngestHowever theoretically covered by an unconditional law for accommodation.

First -Children’s Children’s Children

According to the barometer, Children represent almost half of people without accommodation. Many live in daily anxiety: night instability, impossibility of washing correctly, stress connected to forced moves from one place to another. At this age, precariousness does not only concern the absence of a roof: he weakens health, undermines psychological development and isolates his companions.

At school, these children combine obstacles: Delays in learning, abandoning, unable to follow the tasks for lack of space or warm equipment. The teachers regularly testify to their impotence in front of the students who come exhausted, poorly fed or absent for several days in a row.

A saturated accommodation system

Despite the efforts announced in recent years, the number of welcome places remains insufficient. Emergency devices are overwhelmed, forcing families to compose with temporary and unstable solutions. Every evening, The emergency number 115 refuses thousands of requests.

UNICEF recalls that a worthy accommodation is not a favor but a right. The Association asks for an ambitious national plan, with a rapid increase in the number of perennial places and strengthened support for access to social construction.

Long -term consequences

The precariousness experienced in childhood is not a parenthesis. Studies show that it leaves lasting traces on physical healthLearning and future professional integration. Every evening he spent outside these children from the possibilities of a peaceful future takes away.

Beyond the figures, UNICEF insists: they are the lives of children who are played and the urgency can no longer be ignored.

Parents and citizens, relay relay

Faced with this crisis, everyone can contribute. Earth associations have no volunteers to distribute meals, school materials or simply offer listening time. Parents can also educate their children on solidarity, explaining the reality of these invisible companions.

UNICEF eventually invites public authorities to an “immediate start”, remembering that making children sleep on the street is not only a political failure, but a serious violation of fundamental rights.