Street Action - Committed to street children through action and partnership

Connecting street children and those who support our partners work

Using technology and the web to work as an extended connected network of people around the world, creating scale without mass and keeping our organisation and overheads small. Our community is about mutual respect in the way we work and the values we espouse so that the beneficiaries of our work and the extended Street Action community will continue to flourish and grow.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has defined the future of the internet as “humanity connected”, and Street Action is inspired by that idea – we want to explore how a small NGO can facilitate new sorts of connections using basic technology between those supporting street children in Africa and people with money, skills or time to give from anywhere in the world - virtual team-working to give street children a chance. Putting webcams and laptops in the hands of street children so they can tell their story to the world directly, virtual classrooms where street children can be taught skills to help take themselves off the street, connecting practitioners in different places so they can support and learn from each other when they would not ever have the opportunity to meet face-to-face - we want to try all these scenarios and more to be an effective 21st century international NGO.

Join the Street Action community and be part of a new way of giving, being connected directly to the people you want to help. Whether a regular donor or not, anyone can sign-up to the Street Action network to keep up to date on developments and receive our quarterly newsletter.

Contact Naomi (naomi@streetaction.org) to sign up.