StreetKid

Area: Ghana

Focus: Children 10-under

streetchildafrica.org.uk is a donation-only website that outlines the cost of helping a street child in Africa in getting food and an education. Since the public school system in Ghana requires uniforms and certain materials, it is difficult for many youths there to receive a proper education.

This website clearly outlines the costs for clothing, feeding, and sending a child to school in Ghana. An excerpt:

£10 will buy a school uniform and shoes enabling a street child to attend a government school in Nigeria.

£10 will care for a new street baby and mother for a week in a crèche in the slums of Accra, Ghana.

£30 will support a street child in school in Harare, Zimbabwe for one year.

£100 will pay a street worker, a trusted trained adult in Africa’s city streets to listen to, guide and protect street children, for one month.

£2,500 buys educational materials to take education to the slum streets – allowing children excluded from the mainstream school an opportunity to learn.

PROS: This service publishes it’s charity number in the UK, so visitors and participants can research and ensure that it is legitimate. They also very keenly outline the cost of helping kids who are on the street already with no hope of qualifying for a public school get an formal education. The street-helpers, or people who watch after children and mentor them in the streets is also a smart donation.

CONS: It would be nice if they explored more options for becoming involved with the children, either through mail interaction or going to Ghana to work with them.

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