Street Child is one of the fastest growing international children’s charities. It was founded in 2008 by Tom Dannatt, whose faith-inspired leadership has developed the charity from a small localised work with 100 children in Sierra Leone to an international NGO working in over 20 countries. This year it has reached the milestone of helping over a million children and was selected as The Times and Sunday Times international charity for their 2023 Christmas Appeal.  

Street Child believes that every child should be safe, in school and learning. We pride ourselves on being an organisation which is willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t. This includes active conflict zones, disaster-affected regions, remote hard-to-reach areas and economically fragile communities. Street Child focuses on helping vulnerable children by working with local expert partners to combine child protection services and education with livelihood support - addressing the social, economic and structural issues that underpin some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.