Written by Pius, director of GNPDR Street-connected children are often seen as a public security problem instead of children in need of protection, healing, and opportunity. In Rwanda, many children living on the streets are periodically chased by security people in plain clothes, rounded up, and taken to rehabilitation centers…
For the young people and children who have found themselves living on the streets in Lusaka, Zambia, the Chisomo Drop-In centre is a life line. It is a place of safety – a place where they can just sleep without fear of someone kicking them awake and forcing them to…
Dieu Don is a 14-year-old boy who had lived on the streets of Kigali in Rwanda for two years due to family conflict and violence. One day, he met the street outreach team from GNPDR and accepted counseling from them. This led to him asking GNPDR if they could help…
written by Aaron Chilunjika, from Chisomo James is a 17 yrs old boy coming from Nakonde in Northern province of Zambia. He is a double orphan, coming from a family of 5 children and he being the 3rd born. When both his parents passed he was taken in by the…
Elisha and Daniel are two boys who are being supported by the Street Kids outreach programme run by GNPDR. Both lads have just returned from the government-run rehabilitation center, where they were sent after being accused of theft (never proven) and held for 1 year. Thankfully for them, on release…
written by Aaron Chilunjika from Chisomo, Zambia This is 19yrs old Rose who has been coming to Chisomo Drop-In centre since she was 15yrs old. She is a single orphan since the death of her father and her mother is very vulnerable and lives in poverty. Rose comes from a…
Prince Irakoze lived on the street for 4 years until he met with GNPDR staff who advised him to leave the street life and go back to his family and he accepted to reintegrate on the condition that he would be facilitated to go back to school.Prince decided to go…
Ivan (in school uniform) met GNPDR staff when he was 13 years of age and living on the street. He was very hopeless and unhealthy as he was taking drugs! Our staff advised him to stop taking the drugs, return home and go back to school, which would shape his…
The Mothers Program focuses on empowering women to prevent children from ending up on the streets. Women are trained in various income-generating skills. Skills such as Making reusable sanitary pads, peanut butter making, tie and dye, smoking of fish and chicken, sewing and crocheting are taught so that the women…
The drop-in sessions for street kids continue to be run by GNPDR staff Angelique and Jeremiah. Some of the recent sessions were a bit lower in number, and this was primarily for two reasons. Some weren’t there simply because they gone to look for food, but, more positively, others weren’t…
