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.

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 Monica – a girl who Toybox met in El Salvador who is currently out of school.

Toybox is part of a group of organizations that is calling for this to change through the 1GOAL World Cup campaign. We are asking you to join football celebrities and thousands of people around the world in asking the UK government to make education a number one priority.

Join the team – ask the government to make
universal primary education a priority here

If you are a teacher, parent or child you can also get your school involved. Students can take the 1GOAL challenge, together with young campaigners in over 100 countries. Get your 1GOAL schools pack here

Our UK Advocacy Partners

Toybox works with a number of coalitions of UK-based organisations. Together we can have a bigger impact in our campaigning actions, and amplify our voices so that we draw closer to a world with no street children.

Here are the main groups we are involved with:

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.

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. The Micah Call is the main campaign, which you can sign to show your support for these vital goals to be achieved – sign the Micah call here.

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!