National Research

Junia Quiroga mentions that this work never was made in Brazil, Emphasizes that the survey answers to a demand of on institutions to the people in situation of made street during first national meeting on the subject, carried through in 2005. ' ' It had an order so that we had more information on this public, so that the public politics more are adjusted ele' '. Available in had access in 11/Nov/08 In such a way the Social Ministry of Public Works and the Economy and Combat to Hunger a National Research carried through in the year of 2007 to identify the profile of the inhabitants of street in the context of the country. This action appeared in the attempt to elaborate of a national diagnosis that allowed to all know the characteristics of these citizens in the domestic territory, locating this population in the cities of bigger concentration of these citizens. To not having guarantees of localization of these citizens, the researchers had opted to more than visiting cities with 300 a thousand inhabitants and in nocturnal period. The teams were formed by researchers and social assistants and the interviewed ones must have 18 years more than.

The researchers had effected boardings in diverse points of the cities as abandoned squares, viaducts, sidewalk, beaches, building, used lixes, shelters, and other places as habitation for the street inhabitants. According to arguments of technician of the MDS, the research organized and accomplished in the great cities for the confrontation of this question had as objective to understand the characteristics of these citizens, to implant mechanisms of atendimentos to these citizens. The responsible professionals for the success of the national research had tried to locate the biggest number of possible individuals, harvesting information that they made possible given valuable on the street population. The results had been presented in 29 of April of 2008, and evidenced that in the country an approach total of 32 a thousand inhabitants of street existed, an enormous unproctected contingent of the public politics, indicating the necessity of the accomplishment of an unpretentious analysis on the presented data, for the concretion of proposals effective with sights to the overcoming of the problematic one of the street.