Street Kids

Reuniting street kids with their families

It’s hard to describe the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings that wash over you when visiting the wasteland where the poorest and most destitute children live.

Some of the children have limps, missing teeth, scars, rashes, sores, and obvious mental issues. There are young mothers with their babies and even a very, very drunken man. Litter is strewn all about, most of it empty glue bottles.

Here live hundreds of children and young people from up to age 17 , many high on glue that they openly sniff from bottles held under their noses, glazing over their eyes. The glue stops them from  feeling their hunger pains and it dulls their minds..


Our Programme Director Morris himself had been a street boy for seven years. Because of his own experiences and relationships with these people, he has earned their trust and he frequents their environment daily. He knows them by name and searches through the night when a child has gone missing. We give them medicine and basic first aid, and Morris often brings his guitar to sing with them in the slums.


These unwanted, abandoned, abused, homeless children are at high risk of abuse and serious illness.

But we work to give these children hope, and Morris has identified 30 street children that can be  reunited with a surviving family member.





When the conditions are right, we repatriate the children and enroll them into school. For a period of one year we then monitor the children and assess their development.








It costs us £175.00 to repatriate a street child and ensure that they receive education. If you would like to rescue a street child from the rubbish dump and support their return to their family, please email liz@openarms.org.uk or go to our Just Giving page to donate directly.