Projects

Working with our partners and funders, we develop specific projects to raise financial support for.  Currently we are working with Street Action to build a village for street children.

Street Children Village: Providing a home and future

This would provide short and long-term options for street children to find alternatives to street life. This would also allow us to save money each month on the houses that New Generation has to rent.

Our partner Street Action is committed to supporting this project. The cost to build one house, which would be a home for twenty street children, is $40,000 (£25,000 or € 28,000) . This includes all running costs for the first year, at which point, each house would be able to generate food (and other income) from agricultural projects set up and run by the street children in the village. We are excited because this is a innovative and sustainable way of helping children make the transition from the streets back into communities.

Overall, we plan to raise over $160,000 to build four houses but are urgently looking to raise $40,000 to allow building work to begin on the first house by then end of 2010. If you want to make a one-off donation, however small, to this project then you can do so by visiting the New Generation Village appeal on Street Action’s online giving site at JustGiving (http://www.justgiving.com/NewGenerationVillage). If you know of people, organisations or funders who may want to donate larger sums, or play a larger role in this project, then please introduce them to us.

Keeping New Generation’s homes open

Another urgent need is to ensure that the two existing houses  we run are kept open. Sadly, due to a general reduction in funding, two houses have already had to close in 2010 and there was a danger of the other two closing. Our partner Street Action was able to provide some emergency support to ensure that these houses remain open.  We need to increase the regular monthly support to this project to ensure that they remain so. Money donated by you, our supporters, goes towards food, clothes and school fees for the children and also includes rent for each house. The cost per child is only $63 (£40 0r €45) per month.

Monthly giving – every little helps

Providing monthly support is an effective way to ensure our long-term growth and sustainability. It can be easier than you think to change a street child’s life and as little as  $63 (£40 0r €45) a month will ensure that a street child in Burundi can have a home, food, clothes, education and a future away from the streets.