LEAP from the Street - Learning, Educating and Protecting (360G-CR-1324293)

Detailed research done by Chance for Childhood (CfC) shows that significant proportion of the children with street connections have challenges in expressing themselves. This impediment is likely to have developed due to trauma, disability or lack of schooling. As a result, all too often these children spiral into conflict with authorities and the law. This may also have been at the root of their leaving home or what stops them from returning home. This project in Kenya will work with schools, juvenile justice authorities and street children organisations and build their expertise enabling them to identify and overcome the problem in working with street connected children. Through this project these children will be helped to avoid being abused or getting into trouble and helped back into their communities. In the process teachers will also be supported to ensure all the children they teach can learn in less disruptive classrooms.