The Toybox vision is of a world with no street children

Toybox supports specialist, indigenous teams for the rescue, restoration and reintegration of street children in Latin America. We work with children who are living on the streets, and with children who are at high risk of becoming street children. We seek to be God's love in action for street children.

Our work is carried out in four main ways:

Rescue

Helping children to come off the streets and into a safe place.
Teams search out the most vulnerable children living on the streets, seeking those in greatest need. The teams offer friendship, food and first-aid to the children and the opportunity to come off the streets into places where they will be cared for and loved.

Future Building

Supporting and helping children to find their place in society
Children who have come off the streets are in need of tools for the future. Toybox provides the means of an education, vocational training and in many cases, a stable environment in which to learn. By equipping the children with these life skills, they can start a new life in society with fresh hope for the future.

Prevention

Helping stop children going onto the streets in the first place
Toybox believes that prevention is better than cure. We work with children who are at ‘high risk’ of becoming street-living children, giving them support and education through our network of community projects. These high risk children are children who live in extreme poverty, who live in prisons, working children, children who have suffered physical and mental abuse and those who have been abandoned or orphaned – all of which are factors that could push children out onto the streets.

Awareness

Making people in the UK and in Latin America aware of the plight of street children and what can be done to help them
There are an estimated 40 million street children in Latin America. Toybox works to raise the awareness about the lives of street children by working through Advocacy with Government and Politicians, and by campaigning to ensure that street children are always high on the agenda of those who can make a difference, both in the UK and in Latin America.

Read More:

Rescue: Rescue – Red Alert – Refuge – Jenifer's Story

Future Building: Family Reintegration – School & Vocational Training – Homes

Prevention: High Risk Projects – Family Work – Ambassadors – Josue's Story – Toybox Project List

Awareness: Latin America – UK

'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
Matthew 25:40

 

Further Information:

Why there are street children
Street children facts

Street children in Guatemala
Street children in Bolivia
Street children in Peru