What does Railway Children do?
We look to reach children when they first arrive onto the streets, as we know that this gives us the best possible chance of protecting a child from abuse and the best chance of restoring family relationships. We achieve this through paying outreach workers to make interventions directly with children on the streets and social workers who offer shelter, food, counselling and protection whilst we endeavour to return children home or look for long term care. The most effective and efficient way of achieving this is to work through locally based organisations who understand the context in which they work and are able to identify quickly any new children arriving on the streets. We work in close partnership with these organisations, and look to Inform them on best practice, Improve their current working practices, Initiate and fund innovative work, Influence local stakeholders and governments and Inspire everyone to both understand the needs of street children and offer what support they c
