Street Kids International is a non-profit agency and a global leader in developing and disseminating the strategies and tools needed to give street kids around the world the choices, skills, and opportunities to make a better life for themselves. Having worked with more than 2 million street kids in over 60 countries, Street Kids International has been recognized by the United Nations as a Global Best practice leader in youth work.

Street Kids International is a registered charity in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom and is currently delivering programs in over 10 countries globally.

Street Kids International and ECCO Walk for life have agreed to a three year partnership that will improve the lives of youth in Kenya and Poland. The partnership will include a number of initiatives, including a series of ECCO Walkathons. For each kilometre participants walk, ECCO will donate approximately €1 euro to charity.

ECCO Walkathons are scheduled for August and September 2008 in Copenhagen, Warsaw and Berlin.

For more information about ECCO Walkathons or to register for the event, please visit http://www2.eccowalkathon.com/

For more information on the partnership read on.

• We are proud to have been shortlisted for the 2007 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Award, which honours a charitable organization that has made extraordinary contributions to alleviating human suffering. We thank the Conrad N. Hilton foundation for its support.
• In November 2007, Street Kids International was featured on the French-language television show Partir pour ses idées, on TV5 in Canada. The show featured the stories of youth in Nepal who applied the skills learned through our Street Business Toolkit.
• We were honored to receive the Special Recognition Award for Long-term Commitment to International Cooperation from CME and CIDA.
• We were recently profiled in Kiwanis International Magazine in an article "Saving the Street Children"
• A recent news report about our relationship with the Commonwealth Secretariat.
• Check out our new Spring issue of Street Scenes newsletter
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