There are officially more than 200,000 children living and working on the streets of Indonesia, with the real number estimated to be much higher. It’s common to see children as young as 3-4 walking among traffic, begging from cars at stoplights. Although there is some assistance from the government, it is not enough to cover the cost of basic nutritional food and supplies needed for school, such as school uniform, shoes and books. Most of the children, like Fajar and Rizky, did not choose this life, but are victims of extreme poverty. If they have not been abandoned by parents who can no longer afford to feed them, some children choose not to go to school because they have to work on the streets to help support the family, earning money from jobs such as busking and picking up trash that can be sold. Sometimes these children eat only instant noodles or rice and eggs – meat, milk and fruit are luxury items they cannot afford.