Street Children

Through-out the world hundreds of thousands of children and young people leave their homes for a number of reasons from ill health to abject poverty, or or simply abandoned by adults who are barely able to look after themselves let alone hungry children who may be too disadvantaged to help seek out an existence on the land.

These street children are amongst the most disadvantaged in the world and are not only open to financial exploitation, but sexual abuse, kidnap and even death. There are rumours of many of these street children being routinely slaughtered just to clean up the streets.

One of worst places on Earth is Mexico City where over 50,000 children live on the streets in abandoned buildings, under bridges, in doorways or in public parks. The equivalent of two thirds of the UK population are street children in South America, and this, at the dawn of the twenty first century.

You can make a real difference to these street children by helping to reunite and support them with their families, where they are safer from abuse and neglect. The street children 'saved' in this way are more likely to achieve better outcomes in life and cascade this down to future generations. Make a difference today.