The Chisomo transition home is in the suburbs of Lusaka, and has space for 40 children. All of the children came to Chisomo from the streets of Lusaka, some via the Chisomo drop-in centre, and some via the police when they do one of their ‘street-kid clearance sweeps’. The purpose…
On a recent visit to Zambia, Cred partner liaison manager, Helen, had the joy of visiting the Chisomo drop in centre and meeting with the young people who were attending that day. The young people, who all are currently living on the streets, can attend the drop in on a…
The Chisomo project in Lusaka, Zambia, has been supporting young people who are connected with the streets for many years. For some they might be living on the streets, others are spending their daytimes begging and hawking on the streets and returning home at night. Chisomo also supports siblings who…
Early November, Helen and Simon visited GNPDR in Rwanda and spent some time at their programmes. Here are some reflections of Helen following the visit. Today we spent the morning with a group of about 25 young people some of whom are living on the streets of Kigali, and some…
Written by Helen AHISDO was one of Creds early Ethiopian partners, and a sister organisation to CBISDO It is a community based organisation in one of the poorer parts of Addis Ababa and for many years has been supporting elderly and child residents who are most in need through a…
written by Jeremiah, one of the GNPDR Street Children programme staff. On December 22nd, 2022 at the GNPDR office in Kigali we hosted a Christmas event for 31 street children who were in our programme with the aim of sharing the love of Christ with them by telling them the…
An update from Pius, director of GNPDR: Hello, I hope this finds you doing well. I just want to give you some updates about the GNPDR street kids programme. I am thrilled to report that we have been able to reach out to 53 children over the last 3 months. 35…
The phenomenon of street children is a world problem and over tens of millions of street children are found across the world. Rwanda considers street children as a category of children in need of special protection. It also considers street children as one of the categories of vulnerable children, with…
GNPDR, our CRED Partner in Rwanda, have recently been able to restart their outreach programme to children living on the streets of Kigali. The outreach programme had been forced to stop during the pandemic, and then had struggled to get restarted, following the sad death of Theoneste, who had been…
Young people who are currently living on the streets of Lusaka in Zambia recently had the chance to get a medical check up from qualified professionals thanks to an Open Health Day that was conducted at the Chisomo drop in centre. Access to medical care is something that is usually…
