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Street Children - Community Children

ORGANIZATIONS WORKING WITH
AND ON BEHALF OF STREET CHILDREN - COMMUNITY CHILDREN

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(Last revised 17 March 2017)

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Jubilee Action
St. Johns
Cranleigh Road
Wonersh, Guildford
Surrey GU5 0QX
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (483) 894787
Fax 44 (483) 894797
www.jubileeaction.co.uk/
Contact Aninha Capaldi or Ali Hall
A charity working primarily with street children in Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines and Thailand, with plans to launch new projects in India and Eastern Europe. Jubilee Action carries out direct aid and awareness programs supporting projects that are designed to inspire achievement and dignity through training and education.

Junta Nacional de Bienestar Social
Av La Paz frente a Repostería El Hogar
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Tel (504) 366978
Fax (504) 391011

Justicia y Paz
AA 31861
Santafe de Bogota, DC
Colombia
michael.lopez@lbbs.org
Contact Michael Lopez

Krousar Thmey
4, Rue 261, Tuk Laak
Tuol Kauk, Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Tel 855 (23)366-184
Fax 855 (23) 428-946
www.myfriend.org/krousar-thmey/e/index.html

Latin America Bureau (LAB)
1 Amwell St.
London EC1R 1UL
United Kingdom

Let the Children Live!
PO Box 11
Walsingham, Norfolk NR22 6EH
United Kingdom
lcl@LetTheChildrenLive.org
www.letthechildrenlive.org/index.htm
Chairman Rev. Michael Rear
Let The Children Live! is a UK Registered Charity (no. 1013634) which tries to inform and educate people with respect to the needs of the street-children in Colombia and beyond. Its stated aims are "both to safeguard the lives of children from the violence and poverty of the streets, and to make their lives worth living by giving them love, education and a future." The Charity was founded by Father Peter Walters who became involved with the street-children in 1982 when they helped him after he became temporarily stranded in Colombia (where he now lives).

Leve Børnene
v/ Leif Simonsen
Nissetvej 24
Grauballe
DK-8600 Silkeborg
Denmark
Tel 74 57 17 00
adm_viva@post5.tele.dk
www.leve.dk

Los Angeles Youth Support Services (LAYSS)
8549 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90038
United States
Tel (310) 360-6236
jjason@loop.com
la-youth.org/
The Los Angeles Youth Supportive Services, Inc. is a non-profit agency set up to deal with endangered youth and youth living on the streets. It is the mission of LA Youth Supportive Services to do whatever is necessary to insure that the youth we serve will have all the professional support, guidance, life-skills, and education they need to successfully navigate through the minefield called adolescence and emerge as successful adults.
Contact Executive Director Jason Wittman.

MANTHOC-Perú
Los Tulipanes #780
Villa jardin primera zona
Lima 35
Peru
Tel 51 (14) 450-6090
Fax 51 (14) 477-2769
Contact Moises Bazán Novoa

Meninos de Rua
Granada
Spain
Tel 34 (58) 24 61 25
Fax 34 (58) 24 61 23
acodesa@goliat.ugr.es
An association of solidarity with Brazilian street children created in June 1996. Our aims are: to denounce the violence suffered by the Brazilian children and youth; to promote and support cooperation projects aimed to improve the conditions of the needy youth in Brazil; and to put pressure on the Brazilian government until it respects the rights of the children. We are working together with the Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua, an independant NGO which promotes the participation of the street children in their claim for their statutory rights.

Mexico Child Link Trust
80 Locksley Park
Belfast
BT10 OAS
Northern Ireland
Tel 44 (28) 90622239 mexicochildlink@compuserve.com
http://www.mexico-child-link.org
Contact Coordinator Jonathan Getty
Mexico Child Link is a UK registered charity which supports a project in Puebla, Mexico for abandoned and orphan children with learning disability, many of whom are ex street children.

Mi Nueva Casa
Box 6643
Nogales, AZ 85628-6643
United States
Tel 1 (520) 761-7850
gilrosas@dakotacom.net
Contact Executive Director Gilbert Rosas
Mi Nueva Casa, Inc., is a bi-national effort to assist the homeless children of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The corporation was formed in respone to the plight of the "tunnel children," homeless youth who lived in sewer tunnels that run between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales Sonora. In these dark and filthy passageways, the children abused spray paint and other drugs, while resoritng to a life of crime including prostitution and smuggling contraband to support themselves. The corporation's mission is simple; it will provide the necessary resources for the youth to become productive citizens of Meixcan society while reducing juvenile delinquency in the United States. To meet these goals, Mi Nueva Casa opened a youth center in Nogales Sonora in 1994. At the center, the youth can eat, shower and study, receive counseling or just hang out. Health care and job development are also available. Center hours are 8-5 Monday through Friday and 9-2 on Saturday and Sunday.

Ministry of Youth and Community Development
Children's Services Division
22C Old Hope Road
5 Kingston
Jamaica
Tel (809) 926-2765
Fax (809) 922-6012
Contact Winston Bowen

MLAL
viccolo s Domenico 11
37 100 Verona
Italy

Movimiento Nacional de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes Trabajadores de Nicaragua (NATRAS)
Casa del Movimiento
De la Gasolinera Plaza del Sol
2 c, sur, 2 c, arriba
Casa #42B
Managua
Nicaragua
Tel/Fax 505 (2) 784154
Contact Justo José Contreras García

Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua (MNMMR)
Endereço do Escritório Nacional
HIGS 703 - Bloco L - Casa 42
CEP 70331-712 Brasília DF
Brazil
Tel 55 (61) 226-9634
Fax 55 (61) 225-1577
www.mnmmr.org.br/
mnmmr@mnmmr.org.br
Contact Coordenador Nacional Rodrigo Stumpf González
Movimento Nacional de Meninos e Meninas de Rua (National Movement of Street Boys and Girls) is active throughout Brazil organizing and aiding street children. It works in 24 states, with more than 5,000 street children affiliated to it.

Musmos
Colayco Hall
Ateneo de Manila University
Manila
The Philippines
Tel (632) 924-46-01 loc. 2360
Fax (632) 924-46-01 loc. 2358
musmos@balut.admu.edu.ph
www.free.prohosting.com/~koby2/org.html
Contact Dexter M. Rubiato, External Affairs Officer
Musmos is a group of college students who work for streetchildren in Manila. With the help of other Non-Governmental Organizations, we are able to put a street project for the streetchildren in our areas. The conditions of the children are not very good. Most of these children are victims of abuse (physically, mentally, and emotionally). We are trying to send these children to institutions who could help them in their situation. But these things are not enough. There are a lot of streetchildren and very few centers that could help them. We are trying to provide them with livelihood and some financial support to help them in their daily living. With the help of a Jesuit group we were abale to feed them but only during weekends. We are also trying to help them medically with the help of volunteer nurses and health workers.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Charles B. Wang International Children's Building
699 Prince St
Alexandria, VA 22314-3175
United States
Tollfree (800) 843-5678
Tel (703) 224-2150
Fax (703) 224-2122
President & CEO John D. Ryan
www.missingkids.org

National Child Rights Alliance
The National Child Rights Alliance was founded in March 1986 by seven youth and adults who had been abused and neglected as children. NCRA recognizes a "dual form" of abuse: that by a parent or caretaker and that by society at large. Whether a child is deprived of safety, food, dignity, medical care, shelter or emotional support by the actions of an individual parent,or by the actions of a negligent society does not make the suffering of the child any less. NCRA believes that its mission goes beyond the immediate need to stop child abuse now. It extends to a larger social justice view of oppressed groups taking power; a civil rights movement comparable to other great civil rights movements.

National Children's Coalition
1095 Market St, Ste 611
San Francisco, CA 94119
United States
Tel 1 (510) 444-6074, 286-7916
Fax 1 (415) 820-4862
YouthKids@aol.com
Executive Director Don Fass
www.child.net

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
US Department of Health and Human Services
United States
nccanch@calib.com www.calib.com/nccanch/
A national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

National Coalition for the Homeless
1612 K St NW, #1004
Washington, DC 20006
United States
Tel 1 (202) 775-1322 & 775-1316
www.nationalhomeless.org
National advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to a single goal--the common bond and mission--to end homelessness.

National Runaway Switchboard
3080 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
United States
Tel (800) 621-4000 or 1 (312) 880-9860
Fax 1 (312) 929-5150
United States
www.nrscrisisline.org
Works with a database of over 10,000 agencies in the US to help children with counseling, medical resources, and a safe place to stay. The National Runaway Switchboard provides a toll-free, 24-hour telephone service for runaways in need of help. The Switchboard offers crisis intervention and referral services with complete confidentiality. It will set up conference calls between young people and their parents or guardians, at the youth's request, and between young people and service providers at referral agencies. It will deliver a message to the runaway's family if requested.

Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
33 Scott Street
Waverley
Johannesburg 2090
South Africa
Tel 27 (11) 786 9140
Fax 27 (11) 786 9197
www.mandela-children.com
Chief Eexecutive Trustee Jeremy Ractliffe
The Trust focuses on the plight of youth in need and in particular on those who are homeless, those who have not had the benefit of formal education, and those in detention or prison.

New Life Center
PO Box 29
Chiang Mai 50000
Thailand
Tel 66 (53) 244-569
Fax 66 (53) 244-569

Niños de la Luz (Children of the Light)
Apartado 63106
Caracas Chacaíto 1067-A, Caracas
Venezuela
Tel/fax (582)761-4320
jhaslet@ibm.net
www.ninosdelaluz.org/
Children of the Light is a Christian ministry dedicated to reaching out to the street kids of Caracas, Venezuela.

North America Project
worldpolicy.org/americas/index.html
The North America Project explores issues of democracy, human rights, and environmental quality in the context of economic integration in North America and the hemisphere. The project, a joint venture of the World Policy Institute (New York) and Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service (San Francisco) is supported by grants from the Arca Foundation and the General Service Foundation.

Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture (OMCT)
World Organisation Against Torture/SOS Torture
Case Postale 119
Rue de Vermont 37-39
CH-1211 Geneva 20 CIC
Switzerland
Tel 41 (22) 733-3140
Fax 41 (22) 733-1051
omct@IPROLINK.CH
www.omct.org
Programme Officer Ben Schonveld
OMCT is the International Secretariat of the SOS Torture network distributing urgent appeals on behalf of its 200 members located in over 95 countries. The Childrens Programme of OMCT exists to protect the rights of the child and issues urgent appeals and substantive reports on the rights of the child and grave abuses of human rights. OMCT also has a fund for the emergency rehabilitation of victims of torture. OMCT places particular emphasis on the need to analyse the economic and social links of human rights abuses and has organised several international conferences on the subject.

Orphanage Emmanuel
Amor Cristiano Internacional
Apdo Postal 20496
Comayaguela
Honduras
Tel/Fax +504 769 41 62
www.dialog.dk/~fjordbak/emmanuel/
emmanuel@hondutel.hn
Contact David & Lydia Martinez
Mission and orphanage in Honduras for homeless chidlren. Through donations from congregations and individuals in the United States, Denmark and England the Mission has expanded each year. There are now more than 300 children ranging in age from 6 months to 21 years.

Orphans in Africa Project
Derbyshire
United Kingdom
colin@orphansinafrica.orgwww.orphansinafrica.org/
A non-profit Christian charity organisation created for the purpose of assisting AIDS orphans and street kids. It is funded totally by donations of caring individuals and churches. It is not affiliated to any particular church or organisation but is supported by many.

Oxfam
United Kingdom & Ireland
274 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 7DZ
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (865) 311311
www.oxfam.org.uk
Oxfam works now in 80 countries worldwide with the aim of helping people to help themselves. For example, it supports a credit fund in Mali in Africa which helps poor women set up small businesses; supports training in organic gardening and tree planting in Bangladesh; and helps an organisation of tribal people in the Philippines keep land-grabbers off their ancestral lands. All of this work is made possible by the efforts of 28,000 volunteers who run the Oxfam shops and local groups, and by the generosity of the public who donate nearly 60% of Oxfam's income. Oxfam's income in 1993-4 was nearly £87 million.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
World Health Organization
525 23rd St NW
Washington, DC 20037
United States
Tel 1 (202) 861-3200
Fax 1 (202) 223-5971

Paul & Lisa Program
PO Box 348
Westbrook, CT 06498
United States
Tel 1 (203) 767-7660

Pelastakaa Lapset ry
PO Box 177
00181 Helsinki
Finland
Tel 358 (9) 694 0422
Fax 358 (9) 694 4688
eija.kemppi@pela.fi (for Secretary General)
www.pela.fi
Secretary General: Mirja Winter-Heikkilä

Population Concern
231 Tottenham Court Road
London W1P 9AE
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (71) 637-9582
Fax 44 (71) 436-2143
Information Officer Fiona Barr
Population Concern works with local partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to establish programs that encompass family planning, maternal and child health care, education and improving the status of women.

PREDA Foundation
Upper Kalaklan
Olongapo City 2200
Philippines
Tel 63 (47) 222-4994
Fax 63 (47) 222-5573
www.preda.org

Program for the Development of the Infant and the Mother (PRODIM)
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
US tel 1 (208) 667-9090
US representative Randy Tetzner
PRODIM@aol.com
members.aol.com/PRODIM/index.html
PRODIM was founded in 1989 by Dr. Sadith Caceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. We administer about 100 rural clinics in areas so remote it takes hours to reach them via motorcycle. These villages have no running water or other utilities. We have an infant eyecare program that has served about 2000 infants and we serve the street girls of Tegucigalpa. Eighty-three street children were murdered in Tegucigalpa in 1995, 20 percent were female.

Programa de Apoyo Integral a Niños Callejeros
México
thais@laneta.opc.org
Es una iniciativa de fortalecimiento institucional apoyada por Quiera A.C., Voluntariado de la Asociación de Banqueros de México; conducida por Thais, Consultoría en Desarrollo Social S.C. y dirigida a instituciones que atienden a niños y niñas de y en la calle en la Ciudad de México y Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Project Kandengues Unidos ("Children United")
Luanda
Angola
Project Kandengues Unidos is funded by the European Union, implemented by the Italian ngo Centre for Development Information and Education (CIES). Begun early 1994, due to last until end of 1998 when activities will be taken over by a national NGO being created by Angolan project staff. The project is directed at street children and women and children in the urban slums. The approach of the project is developmental and non-welfarist. It does not provide either food or boarding (groups of young people may receive a loan from the project to set up home on their own). The focus is on enhancing the young people's own resources and those of the communities in which they live. The project philosophy is to give priority to activities in the slums where the street children come from. Institution building activities and sensitization of the public are important aspects of the project.

Project HOPE
www.projhope.org/
Project HOPE alleviates suffering, saves lives, and helps communities attain lasting improvements in health care.

Project Tomorrow UK
Garden Flat
105 Sotheby Road
London N5 2UT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (71) 226-6667
Projects in Guatemala and Bolivia.

Projeto Casa Esperança
Caixa Postal 96.868
CEP 28.601-970
Nova Friburgo RJ
Brasil
Tel +55 (24) 961-0871
pcull@pcebrasil.org
www.pcebrasil.org
Contact Project Leader Paul Cull
Christian rescue and restoration project for at-risk children (including street children) in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

Prostitution to Independence Dignity and Equality (PRIDE)
3125 E Lake St
Minneapolis, MN 55406
United States
Tel 1 (612) 728-2062

Pueblito Canada
www.pueblito.org
President Ron Walker
Executive Director David Morley
Pueblito is an international development agency committed to supporting and enhancing the well-being and rights of children in Latin America.

Quincho Barrilete
Managua
Nicaragua
Director Olivier Sebrechts
Farm and shelter program near Managua, Nicaragua especially for street kids addicted to glue-sniffing.

Rädda Barnen
Torsgatan 4
S-10788 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel 46 (8) 698 9000
Fax 46 (8) 698 9010
suzanne.askelof@rb.se (for Suzanne Askelöf)
www.rb.se/
Secretary General: Suzanne Askelöf

Ragpickers Education and Development Scheme (REDS)
Bangalore
India
smindia@giasbg01.vsnl.net.in
Documentation Coordinator Rovina Bastian
An organisation working with street children who are mostly ragpickers, it has been in existence for the last 11 years and covers nearly 700 children in its street-based activities.

Rainbows of Hope
PO Box 1707
Fort Washington, PA 29034
United States
mikhail.peternet@peterlink.ru
www.private.peterlink.ru/childnet/
Project Hope was formed in 1997 to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of children living in crisis situations in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Redd Barna
Hammersborg Torg 3
PO Box 6902
St Olavs Plass
0130 Oslo
Norway
Tel 47 (22) 99 0900
Fax 47 (22) 99 0860
pro@reddbarna.no
www.reddbarna.no/
Secretary General: Tor Elden

Refugees International
1705 N Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
United States
Tel +1 (202) 828-0110
Fax +1 (202) 828-0819
ri@refintl.org
Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement.

Rettet Das Kind (Save the Children Austria)
Pouthongasse 3
A-1150 Wien
Austria
Tel 43 (1) 982 6216
Fax 43 (1) 982 46 64 17
rettkind@magnet.at
www.rettet-das-kind-noe.at
Secretary General: Dieter Wesenauer

Rising Youth for Social Equity (RYSE)
2017 Mission St, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110 United States
Tel 1 (415) 863-1100
Fax 1 (415) 863-9798
kidryse@aol.com
Co-directors: Caius Brandão and Jay George
A pilot youth program in San Francisco area to develop an effective model of social organizing and popular education for North America. Program implemented by the Brazil Project of the International Child Resource Institute.

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