Outreach Project
Poverty prevents parents from providing sufficient support to their children. Economic and social problems in many homes have forced increasing numbers of children and young people to spend most of their time outside their homes. These children engage in menial income generating activities in order to survive. Many often have to sleep rough on the streets.
Born on the streets, babies grow to be street children, living in open market stalls and dark alleys where they pick up life of crime, misery and failure and later become street parents. The chain never ends
Our volunteer outreach workers are based in the centre of the city where they are visible to the street children.
For the last 4 years, the Broom Street Children Project has developed an outreach program that befriends many children on the streets of Accra and helps them enrol with master craftsmen as apprentices to learn some trade. We have also established a small hostel in Accra for the apprentices to come in, change themselves, wash down and have some rest at night. This has led to an influx of street children in need of information, advice and guidance from our project.
Born on the streets, babies grow to be street children, living in open market stalls and dark alleys where they pick up life of crime, misery and failure and later become street parents. The chain never ends
Our volunteer outreach workers are based in the centre of the city where they are visible to the street children.
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We distribute blankets, mosquito nets, clothes and soap to the children to try and make their life less hard. It is not a long-term solution but until we grow as an organization and with more funds are able to help place more children into school or training or provide accommodation, it is the most help that we can give. Our out reach workers also provide advice on sexual health matters. |
For the last 4 years, the Broom Street Children Project has developed an outreach program that befriends many children on the streets of Accra and helps them enrol with master craftsmen as apprentices to learn some trade. We have also established a small hostel in Accra for the apprentices to come in, change themselves, wash down and have some rest at night. This has led to an influx of street children in need of information, advice and guidance from our project.
We have already helped 500 children but there is much more still to do.
£5,000 will fund the outreach project for one year.