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The problem of children’s poverty is not widely discussed. The subject is embarrassing and inconvenient, brought up periodically, mainly by non governmental organisations, foundations and people actively engaged in actions infavour of fighting the poverty or counteracting it. Children aren’t perceived as a direct object of he research concerning a base for recognition of children’s experiences with poverty and ways of experiencing it. The present text is an attempt at answering the question of how children living in a culture of poverty construct their identity, what as sumptions and evaluations about themselves and about the world they make. Important also is the issue of the rol of education in the processes mentioned. I would like to show the process of socialisation of the children who were examined and the way they construct their identity using as an example children living in a extreme poverty, so called chilren of the street. In the interpretation of the empirical material I will refer to the conception of cultural dynamic created by M. J. Hatch.