All children are vulnerable, the poor especially so.
Many poor children are exploited. In Asia, particularly South Asia, many millions of children toil as laborers, mostly in rural areas under bonded or other restrictive conditions. An estimated 3.8 million Asian children suffer work injuries a year, resulting in 1.5 million disabilities and 19,000 fatalities. Several hundred thousand children simply live on Asia s streets. The numbers increased in the late 1990s because of the financial crisis fourfold in Indonesia, according to an ADB survey and are still rising with increased urbanization.