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Our Investments - Current & Future Projects

StreetInvest remains a very small charity in UK but programmes supported overseas are beginning to expand significantly.  These include:

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  • "Sponsor a Street Worker" scheme which allows individual workers to be financed - the first being the outreach team at Streets Ahead in Harare, Zimbabwe
  • First direct grant to support some of the operational costs of a group of student volunteers in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Equipped 

Training programmes are on-going in:

  • Ghana - a regional programme of training of street workers and local trainers leading to a network of street work organisations in the north of the country
  • Tanzania - pilot training in 2010 and follow up training and training of trainers completed in 2011 with a UK based NGO with a view to establishing an East African network of trainers
  • Mozambique - a similar country-wide network of trainers and trained street workers but run entirely by local agencies and their previously trained workers and trainers
  • DR Congo - needs assessment for additional 3 city training conducted by our Congolese trainers. The next step is a regional training programme.

Additional projects under discussion include:

  • Africa - Uganda, Western Cape, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone
  • Asia - India: pilot to take place in 2012
  • UK - potentially nationwide

Cooperation with other training organisations such as:

  • Street Kids International & Juconi

Other investments include:

  • The Hard Life Art Club in Moshi, Tanzania
  • Robin Hammond project on mental health issues of vulnerable young people in Sub-Saharan Africa

Respected

StreetInvest has secured accreditation from University of Ulster for 4 of our training modules which confer UK University credits for the local participants of the training.  Future plans include:

  • Extending the accreditation to six modules and then securing UK Certificate and Higher Certificate awards for participants
  • Working locally through our training network, currently in Ethiopia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania to promote a Street Work Diploma

Informed

Current activities include:

  • Head counting of street children completed in cooperation with UNICEF in Addis Ababa and Adama, Ethiopia
  • Needs Assessments in Adama, Ethiopia (with scoping of other NGOs working with street children) and Beira, Mozambique
  • National head counting in Sierra Leone in cooperation with Street Child of Sierra Leone and HANCI
  • Continuation of University of Ulster Evaluation
  • Introduction of "Distance Travelled", "Wellbeing" and other monitoring and evaluation measures
  • Evaluation of child headed households mentoring programmes in Zimbabwe

Locally Led

Locally-led networks of organisations through which StreetInvest can offer ongoing support are becoming a reality in Ghana, Mozambique, Democratic Rebuplic of Congo and Tanzania.  StreetInvest is seeking to support its first Regional Coordinators to facilitate these networks in both Ghana and Ethiopia

Influential

Advocacy activities include:

  • Patrick Shanahan was a panel speaker at the UNHRC Day of discussion on street children on 9th March 2011.
  • The International Day for the Street Child on 12th April where StreetInvest has an active role in giving street children a voice
  • Contributing to the Expert Consultation on OHCHR Study on children working and/or living on the street, to be published in 2012
  • On the working group for Sarah Thomas de Benitez/ CSC's Street Children: A Mapping & Gapping Review of the Literature 2000 to 2010