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.
Brazil
LUA NOVA
The Association Lua Nova provides services to young mothers and their children in social vulnerability conditions. Founded in 2000 Lua Nova is a non-governmental association with headquarters in Sorocaba (SP). Lua Nova develops and experiments different approaches aimed at the social insertion of young women such as income generation, employment, damage reduction and community development.
The youth living in Lua Nova’s shelter or who participate in Lua Nova’s income generation activities are not considered as beneficiaries, but as essential partners for Lua Nova’s work to happen. The youth are aged between 13 and 18 years old and come from different Brazilian cities but their point in common is the exclusion they have experienced by their family, their school, the market, which forced them to live in the streets, causing their involvement in violence, drug abuse and prostitution. Street Kids has been working with Lua Nova since November 2010 to strengthen Lua Nova and its partners’ approach to income generation in order to respond efficiently to youth needs and demand.
Ecuador
The JUCONI Foundation
The Foundation Junto Con Los Niños (Together with Children) JUCONI was set up in 1995 as a non-profit Ecuadorian organization, with the aim of providing specialized services for children and adolescents working on the streets, as well as those identified as being at high risk of taking up streetwork. Their mission is to assist all street-working children, and those at high risk, to find solutions for meeting their needs, in a way that ensures their total healthy development, and allows them to exercise their rights in accordance with the framework of the Convention of the Rights of Childhood.
The children on JUCONI´s programs work on the streets to contribute to the household income and return home to their families living in highly dangerous and deprived shanty towns around the city. Street Kids has started working with JUCONI in January 2011 to support JUCONI and its partners’ capacity to work with youth business development.
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.
India
Project Concern International India (PCI/India)
www.pciindia.org
Project Concern International is a non-profit health and humanitarian aid organization dedicated to preventing disease, improving community health, and promoting sustainable development. It is a leading international health organization with over 45 years of experience, that saves the lives of children and families around the world by preventing disease and providing access to clean water and nutritious food.
PCI/India has been active since 1997 and is an affiliate of Project Concern International. The India country office is located in New Delhi and has five regional offices around the country. PCI/India has developed a diverse portfolio of programs in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support; polio eradication; water and sanitation; micro-enterprise and micro finance; humanitarian assistance and children at risk.
Kenya
Make a Better World Kenya (MABWOK)
Make a Better World Kenya(MABWOK) envisions a society where young people are managing and enjoying sustainable development and enhanced livelihood. MABWOK is committed to developing the potentials of youth and support their involvement and participation in development initiatives/activities. MABWOK works in three programmatic areas; child welfare and youth empowerment, education and training, sanitation and environment programs.
Philippines
Virlanie
www.virlanie.org
For 17 years Virlanie has worked with street children and families. Virlanie offers a number of community outreach programs that provide social support and education to the children and families of Manila's poorest neighbourhoods. The Virlanie Foundation, Inc. (VFI) is a private non-sectarian child caring institution in Metro Manila, Philippines. The foundation serves children found living in the streets as well as those referred by other institutions. Virlanie works to prevent the future physical and psychological abuse of children and envisions empowered children who see a brighter future for themselves.
Sierra Leone
HELP Salone
www.helpingsalone.org
Hands' Empowering the Less Privileged Sierra Leone (HELP-Salone) was established in August 1996 first as a national non-governmental organization with the primary purpose of undertaking a variety of development and community mobilization programs. Our interventions in Sierra Leone go back to 1996 during the war when the humanitarian situation was desperate and most international non-governmental organizations had left the country and increasing the need for local organizations to provide humanitarian assistance.
HELP-SL has a wealth of experience in implementing diverse development programs in Sierra Leone in areas such as water and sanitation, skills training income generation for women, micro-finance, supporting youth, food security, including providing assistants to amputees and supporting vulnerable groups and communities affected by the war. Among other things, Help played an active role in the disarmament, demobilization and the reintegration program for the ex-combatants.
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.
past partners
Canada
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.
Saathi
www.saathi.org
Saathi, registered in 1997, as a development organization in Mumbai (Bombay), India, committed to working with issues facing youth living on the streets and runaway or abandoned adolescent girls. In over 10 years of experience, Saathi built an understanding of street youth, recognizing the link between the child entering the city and the youth who has been on the streets for years. In response, Saathi expanded its work to meet these children as they arrive in the city in hopes of preventing them from entering life on the street and becoming accustomed to it.
In a similar extension of the organization's experience and learning, education is taken to a local pavement community, especially to the girl children, with the intention of keeping them in intact families and providing the tools for a brighter future. What began as vocational training and income generation programs grew into a bag-producing unit, a glass mosaic line (lifestyle products as well as fine art), and a camp facilitation outfit, all able to provide products and services for a growing list of clients.
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.
Sierra Leone
Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD)
www.nmjd.org
The Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) is a national civil society organization. It was established in 1988 in Kenema, eastern Sierra Leone, with the aim of working towards building a just and self–reliant Sierra Leone. NMJD envisions a society where the marginalized and exploited would be equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to empower themselves to take control of their own lives.
The inspiration to establish the Movement was borne out of the unflinching commitment of the founders to the total liberation of the poor and marginalized in society. NMJD has several offices in Sierra Leone and supports youth clubs throughout the country.
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. By training youth workers we exponentially expand our reach. These youth workers are able to improve the quality and depth of our work by incorporating their local expertise and language, designing new Toolkit components and engaging government departments and other bodies.
