Street Action - Committed to street children through action and partnership

Street Action seeks to give a voice to existing and former street children and aims to increase the visibility of the challenges street children face through advocacy and research.

We’re committed to increasing the visibility of the challenges street children face through facilitating and supporting the development of research and advocacy. We seek to address the underlying causes of the street children phenomenon, tackling injustice against this marginalized group, and empowerment among street children, former street children and those serving their needs, and raising general public awareness around the issues concerned. Areas that we are currently focused on include:

• Research into the causes and effect of HIV/AIDS on street children and their access to health care,
• First hand accounts of living on the streets,
• Advocacy for policy change, ensuring the protection of street children’s rights

We also seek to:

• Bringing academia and practitioners together,
• Connecting street children and projects to innovative research,
• Developing and brokering good practice amongst grassroots organisations

Current projects we're involved in

To find out about the If a child cries (dies) in the street, does anybody hear? research project click here.