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Images and films from Amos’ Gender Justice projects in Burundi, India, South Africa and Tanzania. Images by Bex Morton, Jules Klass, Tom Merilion, Christoph Stulz and Wilf Whitty.
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The staff and aftercare teams at Umthombo work with children and their families, to reintegrate them back into their homes if appropriate.
Photograph: © Amos Trust/Jules Abensour
Father and daughter in Burundi.
Photograph: © Rebekah Morton
Karunalaya’s work seeks to ensure that the legal rights of street children, pavement dwellers and the impoverished local communities in India are realised.
Umthombo’s work is so successful in reintegrating street children into families and supporting them to stay at home, that they are developing a range of preventative programs with teenage mothers trapped in street life.
Photograph: © Amos Trust/Wilf Whitty
Cheka Sana Tanzania has developed highly effective work with girls, and young women involved in the sex industry.
Photograph: © Christoph Stulz
Umthombo endeavours to change the way society perceives street children.
Life for young girls is hard in Burundi but there is hope.
Cheka Sana Tanzania offer therapeutic-based approaches supporting children’s safety and protection, which respects their opinions and enables them to flourish.
Umthombo Street Children is a pioneering, South African organisation — based in Durban — which provides a unique fusion of high-intensity sports, art, drama and music activities alongside psychosocial support, to empower children with alternatives to street life.
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Please watch our short film about the amazing work of our partner in Burundi, New Generation.
A film by Watering Can Media and Amos Trust
Cheka Sana Tanzania — committed to increasing children’s participation and advocacy to influence society and present a new vision of children’s rights.
Amos partner New Generation grew out of the genocide and civil war that swept Burundi between 1993-2005.
Umthombo run campaigns to educate communities about the realities that street-affected children face.
Umthombo’s advocacy work, which led to the Street Child World Cup and Surfers Not Street Children, has transformed the lives and treatment of Durban’s street children.
Karunalaya was founded as a grass-roots organisation for the welfare of street and working children in Chennai City. They have grown from a small soup kitchen to a large organisation that runs an enormous range of projects and services to meet the care, protection, legal and rehabilitation needs of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children and women.
New Generation continues to actively campaign to raise awareness of the issues Burundi’s young people face, as they try to rebuild a sustainable future.
Cheka Sana Tanzania’s areas of work centre on outreach, psychosocial support, basic healthcare, sports, arts, vocational training, family reintegration and family support.
Umthombo’s dedicated outreach teams know that supporting children in their homes has the best long-term outcome.
Underpinning Cheka Sana Tanzania is their advocacy work in local schools, communities and local authorities to change the negative perceptions of street children.
Umthombo provides a unique fusion of high-intensity sports, art, drama and music activities alongside psychosocial support, to empower children with alternatives to street life.
New Generation allows the children to reach their full potential and become leaders of a new Burundi.
Umthombo operates Safespace — a dedicated centre for street children — where they can find the safety, food, help and hope they desperately need.
Cheka Sana Tanzania’s girls’ centre is a vital place where they can be safe, begin to address their trauma and regain their sense of self.
Umthombo’s strategies in working with street-affected children continue to have a significant impact on local government policy and decision-making in these areas.
New Generation originally worked with the children orphaned during the genocide of Burundi’s civil war.
Umthombo befriends and engages with street children, addressing their trauma, rebuilding their self-worth and work towards helping them leave street life.
Karunalaya’s central programme focuses on providing shelter, food, health care, counselling, street-based education and sports programmes, vocational training and family reintegration.
Umthombo’s advocacy work, which led to the Street Child World Cup, has transformed the lives and treatment of Durban’s street children.
Lack of social protection and care in Burundi means working towards reintegrating the children back into the communities they came from.
New Generation Burundi delivers Youth Engagement Programmes which empower young people to make their voices heard.
Praised nationally as an example of best practice when working across tribal groups, New Generation, Burundi continues to provide services through engagement, intervention and reintegration.
