Street Children
The number of children living or working on Rwanda's streets has increased dramatically since the massacres in 1994. With families fractured and living conditions deteriorating, thousands of children were left with few options other than joining the growing throngs of street children.
According to a recent UNICEF report, around 6,000 children in Rwanda live and work on the streets, most of them in the capital of Kigali.
The growing AIDS epidemic is generating more orphans and street children. Thousands of people are dying and leaving these children alone in the world.
RSVP runs a Street Child Feeding and Rescue Project in Kigali which caters for around 150 street children. We employ a full time worker who registers the children and visits them on the streets.
Twice a week we offer children a substantial meal, health check, sports activities and teaching about lifestyle and the gospel.
Eventually, as trust is built up, some of the children are helped off the street into a care home. It is not possible to take children off the street before trust has been established - they just run away again.
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