Teacher helps Harrison move from life on the street to success at school
To mark World Teachers Day, a new Theirworld film spotlights the LEAP Together project to support street-connected children in Kenya.
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“Helping young people in the DRC to overcome education and gender barriers”
Sexual health and the environment are also among issues being tackled by youth volunteers in deprived areas of the conflict-torn country.
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“We help to empower children who have missed school while in hospitals and orphanages”
An organisation set up by a Global Youth Ambassador has also been giving clothes, food and drink to street children in Ghana.
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Street children from across the world meet up at this year’s other World Cup
The tournament in Russia has put the spotlight on the millions of boys and girls living on the streets or working there to support their families.
Dancing and learning, the Nigerian street kids backed by Rihanna and other stars
Model Naomi Campbell also visited the disadvantaged children from Lagos, who are being educated thanks to a caring young choreographer.
Charity helps Latin American street children find an identity and an education
Over 20,000 living and working on city streets in Guatemala and El Salvador have been guided by Toybox into shelter, health services and schools.
Conflict and hunger pushes South Sudanese children into work and on the streets
In a country where 72% of children are out of school, the number of street kids facing danger and exploitation is increasing daily.
“In conflict, crisis, poverty and discrimination … how we are helping children into school”
Theiworld helps refugees into school and supports Safe Schools as part of our work to help every child into education. Read more about how we change their world. To mark the start of a new year, we asked leading charities and NGOs to tell us what they are doing - about some of their most valuable education projects in 2017 and their aims for 2018. Here is what they told our education in emergencies writer Billy Briggs.
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“I went home from school one day and found our house burnt to ashes and my family missing”
A teenage boy from Somalia tells how he went from being a happy youngster to a street kid and child soldier - and how he longs to finish his education.
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“Street children in Uganda go online to debate inequality with friends all over the world”
A project where street children discuss issues with people from other countries is helping to tackle stigma - and is being taken into their own communities.
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