Childhope's Outreach and Protection/Education on the Streets provides counseling and non-formal education among street children in 20 areas in Metro Manila through our 31 Street Educators. Our Street Educators, either social workers or teachers, provide the street children with direct access to basic social services such as counseling, alternative basic education, basic literacy and numeracy, health care, recreation and referral services that leads them towards a better life off on the streets.
Based on the study done by the Government, there are 222,400 children who live in the streets of Metro Manila. Some children live with their families while some live on their own. These children have limited access to food, shelter, protection, and health; and these children don't have a chance to go to formal school.
Through Childhope's banner program, the Outreach and Protection/Education on the Streets, the street children are provided protection from abuse, opportunities to develop knowledge about their rights and responsibilities and the risks encountered on the streets, develop positive behavior, and eventually assist them to leave the street through referral to recovery centers or to relatives who are not the child's abusers.
The street children, parents and their families (if still applicable) as well as the communities will benefit from this project. The street children participants will have better direction in life and will no longer be engaged in illegal and unproductive activities but will be worthy and productive citizens of their community. The street children will have the opportunity to develop life goals and to have a better future ahead of them.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
