our roots
the Street Kids International Bike Couriers
In the mid 1980s in the middle of the Sudanese civil war and Ethiopian famine, Peter Dalglish, our founder,encountered the street kids of Khartoum who had fled rural war and hunger for the relative security of the city. Without parents and adults they were fending for themselves, always just ahead of the militias and police. Peter saw their resilience, recognized their innate street smarts and with borrowed bicycles, new t-shirts and a few mail delivery contracts from local businesses. The Street Kids International Bicycle Couriers was launched.
The kids earned an income and attended Street Kids International’s informal school at night. It was the beginning of Street Kids International’s commitment to working with street kids from a base of economic and developmental promise. Today we are more sophisticated about how we do things but the new generation of kids are the same – looking for a chance, working hard to survive, aspiring to a better future.
StreetKids International, an international charity based in Canada, strives to be the lead organization in developing, dissemination and advocating the practical solutions needed to give street kids around the world the choices, skills, and opportunities to make a better life for themselves.
last update:
March 6, 2008 1:23 AM
