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CAS makes contact
with street boys and girls and offers
them a day refuge. Here they can
relax, play, wash, attend classes,
receive counselling and medical
attention and learn about different
skills which can offer them a better
future.
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A
street boy learns basic literacy
skills in CAS's classroom |
CAS sponsors
children through vocational training
and apprenticeships. The street
children are offered a place at
Hopelands Farm, providing them with
a safe haven away from the streets.
Here they follow their sponsorship
schemes in vocational training and
boys and girls learn anything from
animal husbandry to horticulture
and pottery. When they leave Hopelands
they are able to start a life for
themselves with their new found
skills.
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Ex
street children working in
the fields at Hopelands Farm |
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Boys
staying at Hopelands Farm
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CAS has also
undertaken research about the lives
of street children in Accra and
recently published their first book
"The Ghanaian Street Child".
For
more information on CAS and
their admirable work visit
thier website at
www.cas-ghana.com |
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Street Girls'
Aid (S.AID) was founded in 1994
to care for street girls aged less
than 18 years. Many of these girls
are pregnant or are already young
mothers, and S.AID also helps them
to care for their babies. S.AID
runs a refuge for pregnant street
girls, and also operates five creches
in different locations in the market
area in Accra so that street girls
can go to work while their small
children are being cared for. The
creches also offer healthcare to
the young children.
A
picture showing the "gutter"
an infamous shanty area in
Accra, where street children
spend their time, looking
for rubbish to recycle.
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About 750 small
children aged between six months
and five years visit these creches
every day.
An example of the cramped
conditions in Accra's Shanty
creches.
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A picture of a creche run
by S'Aid. |
In addition, Street Girls Aid offers
outreach support to two "shack
creches" - creches run by "grannies"
living in the shanties of Accra.
Street Girls Aid offers practical
resources and the support of a social
worker, enabling these carers to
raise their standards of care for
these babies.
S'Aid
also offers street girls and
young street mothers the chance
for vocational training -
such as sewing |
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