Why campaign?

Because things are not fair for street children. Thousands of children across Latin America have to work for a living and can't get an education. Thousands more are trafficked or exploited. Things shouldn’t be like this.

Toybox is passionate about speaking out for children. We are working at every level to get the voices of street children heard. We need you to help us do this. A world with no street children is possible. Take the actions on this page, and bring it one step closer!

Toybox Partner Campaigns

Voices are louder together. Toybox is involved with several initiatives that are speaking out on wider issues of injustice that affect street children. Please click through below to take action on key issues that will make a difference to the street children of Latin America.

SPEAK
Speak is a network of students and young adults who pray and campaign about issues of global injustice. Through bringing change to situations of injustice, they aim to share the love of our creator: God.

1GOAL – Send my Friend to School

Education is the right of every child, but there are currently 72 million children around the world who are not in school. Many are street children. Read about Maria – a girl who Toybox met in El Salvador who is currently out of school.

The 1GOAL World Cup campaign is nearly at an end. Toybox has been joining other NGOs, celebrities and thousands of people around the world in calling for every child to receive a full primary education.
Here are the results so far...

• More than a million school children have taken part in the school campaign, learning about education for all and making giant supporter scarves to send to the Prime Minister
• Several thousand supporter scarves have arrived at 10 Downing Street so far, with more to come
• PM David Cameron has responded with a letter acknowledging the importance of education for every child
• 18,000 UK adults have joined the 1GOAL campaign
• More than 80 MPs have visited schools
• The Secretary of State for International Development attended the 1GOAL education summit in South Africa

Thank you to every Toybox supporter who has got involved so far. If you would still like to join in, you can: Individuals here, Schools and teachers here. Your support means that children like Maria could have the chance of an education and with it, a brighter future.

Bond – A network of 350 international development organisations which is seeking to promote, represent and lead their work. Their current campaign ‘Vote Global’ is calling for the forthcoming election to make a difference to the world’s poor. Check out the Vote Global website and what you can do, here.

Read the Joint statement by UK civil society organisations ahead of the 2010 UN MDG Review Summit

Micah Challenge – Toybox is part of this Christian movement which is supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the halving of poverty by 2015.

Sunday October 10th (10.10.10) is a day of worship and action for and with the world's poorest people. We want to remember the poor and remind our leaders that we support the promise made by all the world's nations ten years ago to halve extreme poverty by 2015. We have five years left to make that promise reality. Join 100 million people around the world: Download the Global Prayer and Promise for your church, watch the 10.10.10 video or download the 10.10.10 information sheet.

Consortium for Street Children – A collection of 59 UK based organisations working in 89 countries dedicated to the rights and welfare of street living children, street working children and those at high risk. Their last campaign calling for violence against street children to stop was a great success. Thank you to all our supporters who signed. Watch this space for more campaign news from the Consortium.

Read about the CSC partner 'Amos Trust' and their exhibition of street children at the street child world cup

Go back to: What We Do
Go on to: Advocacy in Latin America

The Big Dream

TAKE ACTION: Cast your vote for The Big Dream and wake up the politicians…!

The dreams of street children are simple - education, health, protection and the right to be heard. Toybox is campaigning to make these dreams come true and we need your help!

Join us and hundreds of others in asking the government to keep the promises that were made back in the year 2000 – to provide education for all, healthcare, protection and the end of poverty. These Millennium Development Goals could change the world for street children, but at the moment the UK isn't giving enough.

We can't let the politicians fall asleep on the job...
give them a wake-up call!