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Radio France Internationale
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Sarah Elzas with RFI

Numbers of children sleeping rough in France on the rise

A woman and her son in a tent in front of Paris city hall as part of an action to highlight the plight of the homeless, June 2021. A report co-authored by Unicef France highlights the increasing number of children sleeping rough in France. © Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP

An increasing number of children in France are left to sleep in the streets, warns Unicef France in a yearly report that shows nearly 2,000 children were sleeping rough at the start of this school year, a nearly 20 percent increase from last year.

"Children and teenagers are not serene faced with [the problem of] how to get a normal education if you don't know where you are going to sleep at night," says Pierre Imhoff-Guiserix, who coordinates a day centre for homeless families in Strasbourg, called Loupiote

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