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Welcome to Dwelling Places Dwelling Places is a charity working in the country of Uganda. Uganda is a country in the continent of Africa. Uganda UK Africa

Welcome to Dwelling Places Here are photos from Uganda: Tasty fresh fruit Colourful cultural dancing Kampala, the capital city Beautiful countryside and safari parks

Welcome to Dwelling Places Dwelling Places was started in August 2002, by a Ugandan lady called Rita.   Dwelling Places’ aim is to: rescue and change the lives of street children and their families speak out for children at risk so that Ugandans can help change their own communities

Street Children... What is a street child? Commonly, there are 2 types of street children: Full-time ones are found on the streets all day and night, finding shelter wherever they can, for example up trees, in shop doorways or in dirty sewers Part-time ones are found on the streets during the day and have a place to go at night, usually into a slum area What is a street child? UNICEF estimates that there are about 100 million (100,000,000) street children. However it’s difficult to know the exact number. How many are there in the world?

Which countries are they found in? Sadly, homeless children can be found in many countries around the world. The highest numbers of street children are in developing countries. Which countries are they found in? There are lots of reasons, for example, Death or illness of a parent(s) Family breakdown (e.g. parents splitting up) Armed conflict (e.g. different groups of people at war with each other) Poverty (e.g. not having food, money, a house) Natural disasters (e.g. floods) Famine or drought (e.g. not enough food grown, no rain to help crops grow or water to drink Neglect, abuse or abandonment (e.g. children not being looked after well) Why do children live on the streets?

Some come to the streets alone, but they often find other street children and form a ‘gang’. Some are with other relatives (e.g. brothers, sisters or cousins) Some are with their parents Do the children live by themselves? The children do whatever they can to earn money and survive, for example, Begging Collecting old water bottles to sell for recycling Stealing Going through rubbish bins to find food Any tasks which will earn them money How do they survive?

As you can imagine there are lots of dangers, for example, Hunger Violence Abuse Trafficking (being taken away like modern slaves) Abduction Poor health And many more What dangers do they face?

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. They follow a holistic 4-Rs programme to: Welcome to Dwelling Places RESCUE children from the streets and slums visits by Dwelling Places’ team health care by nurses getting to know the children and their stories

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. What can you see in the photo?  Welcome to Dwelling Places REHABILITATE (help you get better) in the Transitional Rehabilitation Home (TRH) – learn to sleep in a bed, get washed and dressed, brush your teeth and sit down to eat daily meals catch up school – so you can catch up on all the lessons you have missed Counselling – someone to talk to about what has happened in your life

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. What can you see in the photo?  Welcome to Dwelling Places RECONCILE (help you fix any problems with your family) Dwelling Places’ team will try to find your family if you have one They will help your family to start fixing any problems they face, so they can care for you again They will help you to spend time with your family

This photo shows how Dwelling Places helps the children. What can you see in the photo?  Welcome to Dwelling Places RESETTLE (help you go back to live with your family) Dwelling Places’ team will help your family find a safe place to live They will help you move in with them and start school They will visit you to find out how you are all getting on