Toybox Media Centre

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Who are Toybox?

For general release:

Street children stay alive by their wits - stealing and scavenging, begging and sleeping rough in parks, shop doorways and on dumps. These children have little or no access to education, care, food, shelter and their other rights. Many are drawn into a world of drugs or the sex trade. In some areas, they are known as the ‘disponibles’ – the disposable ones. Statistics vary widely but the United Nations estimates there could be as many as 40 million children living and working on the streets of Latin America.

Every day, Toybox reaches out to over 5,000 of these children with practical help, friendship, training, education, and homes, as appropriate. We support teams helping children at high risk and their communities - with education, training and social action. This helps prevent children becoming street children by tackling root causes.

Toybox believes that every child’s voice should be heard and their rights fulfilled. We are working to change the conditions in Latin America that lead to children going onto the streets, to change the laws that are preventing them from having their rights fulfilled, and to raise international awareness of the issues they face.

Toybox currently works in Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru; but we are actively seeking out new opportunities to help the street children in other Latin American countries.

Toybox is based on caring Christian principles but we help all children who need our support, regardless of their faith, gender, ability or background. We partner only with projects that are carried out to the highest standards of care and child protection. We facilitate the sharing of good practice and help our Latin American partner organisations to become sustainable.