THROUGH THE EYES OF A STREET CHILD

There is a child on the street right now. Perhaps you passed him this morning, a small figure weaving through traffic, hand outstretched, and told yourself you had somewhere to be. Through the Eyes of a Street Child asks you to stop. Drawing on years of frontline social work with street-connected children in Nigeria, Toluwalope Eunice Olojo takes readers on an unflinching journey through the invisible gates that fail a child before the street ever finds them: the family that fractures, the community that stops watching, the school that sees failure where it should see distress, and the government whose policies exist on paper but not in practice.

Through a composite first-person narrative woven from real testimonies, readers enter the life of one boy; his hunger, his loyalty, his grief, his balloon of gum on a cold night, and his dream of one day flying a plane across the sky he used to watch from the pavement. But this is not merely a record of suffering. It is a precise and compassionate diagnosis of why children stay on the street long after they have been given a reason to leave, and a clear-eyed call to every parent, community member, and government official who has ever walked past and looked away. These children are not someone else's concern; they are all our children.