Friends of the Street Children, Kitwe

We also fund The Children's Desk in  Ndola. This is a co-ordinating agency  working with vulnerable and orphaned children in the Copperbelt. Through the Children's Desk we are able to reach out  to several organisations in  this impoverished part of Zambia. We have run successful street worker training courses here, and the 'second generation' of young African street workers are now  being trained.

Street Child Africa officer, Felicitie Holman with street boys from the Children's Desk, Zambia

FOSC is delighted to announce that it has been chosen for the Best Practice NGO in 2005!

In ZAMBIA, a country devastated by the effect of HIV/Aids, we partner an agency called Friends of the Street Children in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. They are pioneering community based projects to enable children whose parents have died from Aids to be overseen by neighbours and extended families. They oversee
skills training within the community, even enabling girls to train in traditionally male based skills such as carpentry.