Makes weekly trips round the streets of Dakar and to its juvenile prison with a view to identifying, approaching and gaining the trust of children at risk.

They roam the streets of Dakar’s suburbs on foot or by car searching for children who need help.

Knowing where to find the Street Children, facilitators take it in turns to go and meet them three times a week.  Markets, bus garages, bridges, are some of the hotspots regularly visited.

Dialogue, listening and administering first aid enable the children, who are usually suspicious and wary, to trust us.  The aim is to encourage them to gradually and voluntarily leave the streets for the shelter of one of our residential centres.

Sometimes delinquent children find themselves incarcerated for petty crimes or just for vagrancy.  We also organise creative activities in the prisons to make them aware of the issues which surround living on the streets, to establish a dialogue, chatting with them and preparing them for their reintegration into society; either with their families or in our centres.

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