The Munich-based Urbis Foun­da­tion has been wor­king in Togo since 2002 in the areas of sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture, solar energy, edu­ca­tion, health and so­cial wel­fare. In a pilot pro­ject fun­­ded by us, the field of work will be ex­pan­ded in 2025 to in­clude the re­inte­gra­tion of street chil­dren. 

These children come from so­cially dis­ad­van­ta­ged back­grounds – of­ten from poor, single-parent or broken fa­mi­lies. They are for­ced to live on the streets be­cause their pa­rents are un­able to meet their basic needs.

Twenty-two under-18s who are wil­ling to parti­ci­pate in train­ing measu­res will be choden. The se­lec­tion will be made in col­labo­ra­tion with the so­cial wel­fare of­fice of the city of So­ko­dé, which has vast ex­perience with street chil­dren. The lo­cal part­ner Creuset Togo, which runs a child pro­tec­tion centre in So­kodé, is in­vol­ved in the pro­ject. The young peo­ple re­cei­ve in­ten­sive sup­port over a per­iod of 12 months. The pro­ject ob­jec­tive is con­sidered to have been achie­ved if 16 of them at­tend school or trai­ning at the end of the pro­gram­me.