What Life is Like for South African Kids - Report

Children are negatively impacted by social problems in several ways at once such as poor schooling, no transport, lack of running water and unemployed parents, states the Child Gauge report.

Children play in Alexandra township in Johannesburg: The Child Gauge report states that just under 90 000 children live in 50 000 child headed households.

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