Street Action - Committed to street children through action and partnership

Cycle Africa is a 12,000 mile journey, through 30 countries ending in Cape Town, South Africa. But it is also a journey with a purpose. The team of four are also cycling to support the work of a number of leading UK street child charities including Street Action, Retrak, Railway Children, Street Child Africa and the Consortium for Street Children. They will look to highlight the work our partners do to help these children, especially through advocacy and 'changing the way that people think and perceive street children'.

Cycle Africa plans to bring back positive stories from children who live on the street and the activists and practitioners working with them. The people, communities and projects they meet will enable the team to find advocacy opportunities for the charity partners to inform policy and decision-making at a higher level. Finally, they will also be raising money so more of these children and young people can be helped off the streets into brighter futures. To find out how you can support Cycle Africa go to their Just Giving page.

Over the next couple of months Cycle Africa will be making their way across Sudan and over the border to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to visit the work of Retrak. They will then be making their way down to Nairobi, Kenya in March where on route they will meet up with a team of street children who will cycle with them to Thika. Here they will spend time with Street Action partner Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) before going on to Nairobi. Cycle Africa is also working in partnership with A24Media about how to raise the profile of our activities with street children.

You can follow their progress through their blogs and on Twitter @cycleafrica.