1. International Day for Street Children - Kit for 10-12 years
Dwelling Places UK
The ARK Card & Gift Shop, 1484 Paisley Road West, Glasgow, G52 1SP

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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 million (100,000,000) street children. However it’s difficult to know the exact number.
How many are there in the world?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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