The marginalised districts La Libertad, San Roque and La Colmena are also known as "expelled" areas. The majority of the children who find their way to Sol de Primavera are from these areas and they are all at high risk of a life on the street. The children live in extremely difficult family situations and suffer from neglect and bad treatment, reaching up to severe maltreatment. Very often their parents are unemployed or work in the vast informal sector as street vendors of casual labourers. Added to this, alcohol problems and drug consumption mean that the vicious circle of poverty and violence is often impossible to break.

The socio economical environment in which they live leads to a magnitude of problems and to a very early integration into the world of work often enter under extremely bad conditions. There is a lack of security and protection and their working environment on the street has a large gang culture which fuels criminality, drug addiction or prostitution.