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Biography

Joe is co-founder and director of Street Action. Street Action was established in 2007 in the UK to support and work in partnership with pioneering street children organisations in Africa.

Joe has worked alongside street children activists since 1996 when he first traveled to South Africa. Since then he has worked with a number of pioneering street children projects and activists in South Africa as well as traveling to other Southern and Eastern African countries. Studying a degree in Politics and obtaining a Masters in Development Studies and African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), he has worked in the field of international development and also local community development in the UK. In 2010 he was made a research associate at the The University of London's Centre of African Studies, based at SOAS.

His work has taken him to a number of countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, as well as India and recently the US to San Francisco where he has been involved in setting up Street Action USA.

Joe currently lives in London, United Kingdom.

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  • Sponsor a team of 10 cyclists riding from London to Brussels to raise money for Street Action. Here's how you do it: http://bit.ly/de8pDI
  • Welcome @cycleafrica to Twitter. London to Cape Town, 20000 kilometres to raise money for street children #StreetAction proud partners.
  • Joe Walker speaking in Vienna on 'what about when there is no family', presenting the research undertaken in Durban, SA http://bit.ly/9eaEia

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