Educating street children

Education provides street children an opportunity to escape the exploitation and poverty that trap them on the street.

The Undugu Society runs four slum community schools, which offer a condensed primary curriculum followed by a year of vocational training, and five schools for children who make their living selling scrap, with numeracy as the focus. This is helping some of the estimated 25,000 children living in Kenyan streets in 1992.

1. Supporting working children
2. Expanding educational opportunities for all children
3. Ensuring universal primary education for children
4. Educating young people
5. Caring for homeless children

1. Protecting socially endangered children
2. Promoting rights of children and youth
3. Instituting adolescent peer education
4. Educating children to prevent drug taking

1. Street children
2. Lack of education

1. The Black Pinocchio