our partners
Street Kids International is only as effective as its working relationships with the people who help support street kids from day to day. These dedicated people have created their own programs, built their own facilities, and raised their own funds.
Street Kids International provides training services to dozens of local agencies every year. At the same time, we also have in-depth partnerships with a number of leading agencies in different parts of the world. These collaborative relationships are very important in keeping us connected to the realities of street involved youth around the world.Bolivia
Centre for the Development of Alternative Education (CDEA)
CDEA seeks to develop initiatives, actions, and strategies oriented to improve the quality of life and strengthen the potential of populations in social disadvantage. CDEA has directed its efforts to promoting diversity, equality, universal human rights and human values through the development and implementation of innovative, educational training programs for both formal and non-formal streams. Four individual youth workers came together to form CDEA and subsequently, these founders of CDEA collaborated with Street Kids to create what is now called the Street Banking Toolkit, a complementary program to our entrepreneurship training program.
Canada
In Canada we work with several organizations in York Region, for more information on who we work with and what our project is all about please visit the Streetjibe blog.
Ethiopia
Emmanuel Development Association (EDA)
www.edaethiopia.org/
EDA envisions a country where children have the opportunity to develop their capabilities so that they can participate equally in the development of their communities, regions and country irrespective of ethnic group, social class or gender. EDA assists communities in the following areas: Education and Training, Integrated Community Health and Sanitation, Gender and Women Empowerment and Advocacy Work.
Youth Challenge International (YCI)
www.yci.org/
Youth Challenge International builds the skills, experience and confidence of young people by involving them in substantive overseas international development projects in partnership with local youth-serving organizations. YCI aspires to a world where youth can reach their full potential through active participation in the development of their communities. YCI and Street Kids International are working with YCI’s partner EDA in Ethiopia to expose Canadian youth and Ethiopian youth workers to Street Kids International’s work overseas.
Haiti
IDEJEN and EQUIP3/EDC
www.equip123.net/equip3/index_new.html
EQUIP3/EDC is a USAID funded program that is designed to prepare and engage out-of-school children, youth and young adults for their roles within the world of work, civil society and family life. EQUIP3/EDC helps countries meet the needs and draw on the assets of young men and young women by improving policies and programs affecting youth in different sectors, such as education, democracy and governance, urban development, health, and agriculture. The program facilitates the involvement of youth in the design, implementation, and evaluation of these activities. In Haiti, they have partnered with IDEJEN who provide out of school youth with employment services and expertise in the areas of employability and skills training, basic and vocational education, job placement and counselling.
India
Railway Children
www.railwaychildren.org.uk/
Railway Children supports street children living alone and at risk on the streets. They help children all over the world, many of whom live in and around railway stations. The focus of their work is stopping the abuse of children living on the streets and they now work with over 40 partner organisations, with 117 projects worldwide across Africa, Asia, South America and Europe.
Kenya
AfriAfya
www.afriafya.org/
AfriAfya (African Network for Health Knowledge Management and Communication) is a non-profit organization and consortium of eight Kenya-based health development agencies. They explore the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) for community health and development. Afri Afya is specifically working with rural and urban poor communities to improve their access to health and development information.
K-Rep
www.k-rep.org/
K-Rep’s mission is “To empower low-income and serve as a catalyst for them to increase their participation in the development process and to enhance their quality of life”. The K-Rep Group endeavours to accomplish this through development finance interventions that aim at creating institutions and mechanisms, which serve to enable low-income people to better organize their financial lives.
Nepal
SathSath
www.sathsath.org/
SathSath supports children who live and work on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. Through their programmes they provide children with opportunities to improve their lives. SathSath assists the children in developing skills, building confidence and learning how to use their rights in society.
Poland
Fondation de Pologne
www.fdp.org.pl/
Fondation de Pologne works in Poland supporting individuals and institutions in the pursuit of their social goals, jointly addressing needs in areas that help rarely or never reaches. The Fondation highlights the innovative, concrete and long-term projects with the intention for projects to yield benefits in the future and focus on the integration of groups at risk of marginalization.
Tanzania
Mkombozi
www.mkombozi.org/
Mkombozi’s mission is to help vulnerable children and youth to grow in mind, body and spirit and to build a more caring society for all. Mkombozi captures local potential through learning and reflection and act as a catalyst for holistic development. Mkombozi envisions a world where all children and youth are prioritised and can access opportunities to become well rounded, inquiring and productive people who are working towards a more just and democratic society. We believe that we can promote social justice through participation and collaboration.
We make a difference through youth workers - the most important component of our work, as well as the best metric for explaining the scope and depth of our work, is the number of youth workers and organizations we have trained and developed. This is critical. By training practitioners we can exponentially expand our reach. It is estimated that for every youth worker trained, our materials and approach reaches 40 street kids within one year of finishing the course. These youth workers are further able to improve the quality and depth of our work by incorporating their local expertise and local language, designing new Toolkit components and by further engaging government departments responsible for the formulation and implementation of policy.
