Street Kids International | empowering street kids around the world with the choices, skills, and opportunities to make a better life for themselves

Street Kids International is a charitable organization with the sole purpose to provide the 700 million youth worldwide living below the poverty line with sustainable opportunities to earn a living. Since 1989, we have been successfully developing innovative learning tools to help street kids learn to support themselves and make safe and healthy decisions that positively impact their lives and that of their families.

Highlights from recent work include…

Microfranchising in Tanzania
Job skills training for the formal outsourcing sector in India
Youth group business in Ethiopia

Learn more about our worldwide programs here.

what's happening at Street Kids

International Youth Internship Program
Supported by the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Street Kids has recently engaged 8 young people to work and learn with our partner organizations for a period of 10 months. Find out more about their work and future opportunities here.

Our 2010-2011 Annual Report is now available!

Our Fall 2011 newsletter is now available!

Samuel's story.

After participating in our Street Business training, Samuel started a small road-side restaurant and can now afford to live off the street.

Primary prevention programs need to make special efforts to gain access to these young people and to understand and respond to their particular needs. This can often be achieved through mobilizing volunteers and street educators, as ... Street Kids International has done when working with street children in Asia." -- Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations