WHAT EVENT OR PROJECT OR PROGRAMME OR CAMPAIGN THAT NEEDS SUPPORT ▼
We always have initiatives that need funding and/or other forms of support.
We would like to ask you to support the following initiative:
Halving Poverty for and with Street and Homeless Children in Africa
This appeal includes two items:
a) Appeal summaries
b) How to donate.
• Appeal Summaries
The following summarises the data, needs, request, use, beneficiaries and outcomes that briefly make the case for halving poverty for and with street and homeless children in Africa.
• • The data
There are multiple estimates about the number of street and homeless children in Africa. Many organisations and experts working on this issue in Africa and local sources argue that this number is huge. Our Africa-based Sister Charitable Organisations working on the grounds confirmed this huge number of these children, knowing the conditions and circumstances of many families they are dealing with.
• • • Estimated number of street children in Africa
Different organisations working on street children matter provide their numbers according to the places of their interest and they have seen or know about these children.
The website ‘futureofafrica.org’ (1) states that
“There are 30 million children living in street situations in Africa, according to a 2011 ILO-UNICEF joint estimate”.
Likewise, the website ‘africanews.com’ (2) indicates that
“There is an estimate of 20,000 homeless children in Kinshasa’s streets“.
In October 2023, ‘agenziafides.org’ (3) aired that 15,000 children were living on the streets in Malawi.
The above figures are just a few of examples of data about children being in street situations in Africa. If one considers the all Africa, this number could be huge as the joint estimate by ILO-UNICEF pointed out.
• • • Estimated number of homeless children in Africa
The United Nations Children’s Fund (4) provides children statistics which show that in 2021 there were 14,000,000 internally displaced persons under the age of 18 in Sub-Saharan Africa, because of conflict and violence.
Obviously, these persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or leave their homes or places of habitual residence were homeless and needed healthy shelter. Many of them are still homeless as we make this appeal.
Furthermore, the website ‘worldpopulationreview.com’ (5) indicates that the 10 top African countries with the highest homelessness rates in 2023 were the following countries with their respective numbers of homeless persons: Nigeria (24,400,000), Egypt (12,000,000), DR Congo (5,332,000), Somalia (2,968,000), Sudan (2,730,000), Ethiopia (2,693,000), South Sudan (1,542,000), Cameroon (1,033,000), Mozambique (769,000) and Burkina Faso (700,000).
Amongst these homeless persons, there are those under the age of 18. For example, according to ‘goalglobal.org’ (6),
“In Ethiopia, it is currently estimated that up to 600,000 children and youth are homeless because of severe poverty, unemployment, and family related challenges in July 2023″.
Without confusing child streetism and child homelessness, there are cases where the same children are both homeless and in street situations.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned street and homeless are desperately looking for their humanitarian needs of survival and shelter to be met.
• • The Needs
The needs for emergency life-saving support are 24 times more than average in Africa where the livelihoods of unsheltered children are severely affected. These children need your life-saving and humanitarian help to meet their life-surviving need of shelter.
• • The Ask
What it has been asked to you is your influence or power to have a positive effect on those who are holding the keys to solutions regarding the problems these unsheltered children are facing, especially for problems that are man-made.
Alternatively, you can donate money to support these children.
Your gift of Positive Influence or Money or both will provide an emergency life-saving and enhancing relief to these Street and Homeless Children in Africa.
• • The Use
Your gift of Positive Influence or Money will help to address the plight of street and homeless children as follows:
√ to address the problem of street and homeless children, which sometimes get ignored
√ to stop parents who are sending their children to the streets to beg, steal or engage in petty trade
√ to turn and keep schools as a place of learning and education, not centres of violence and crime
√ to support street and homeless children to go back to school
√ to incentivize parents to send their children to school
√ to enhance social protection of these children
√ to cut the number of street and homeless children
√ In brief, to reduce or end deprivations linked to the lack of access to basic services, violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and other vulnerabilities.
• • The Beneficiaries of Your Gift of Positive Influence or Money Donation
They include children who are…
σ the victims of a dysfunctional family
σ affected by domestic violence or escaping violence to live on the streets
σ who are on the streets or homeless because disaster-related and conflict-driven causes
σ in street situations because of extreme poverty
σ urban migrant in street situations
σ destitute on the streets
σ unsurprised living alone in urban streets
σ street children as a result of breaking up of family structures
σ generational street children
σ homeless because of economic hardships, natural disasters and other social factors
σ living in makeshift shelters or overcrowded or displacement sites
σ sheltering in displacement camps
etc.
In short, the beneficiaries will be children in street situations, that is children who spend the majority of their time on the streets, either living there or for their livelihoods with or without family. They include the four categories of street children (child of the street, child on the street, part of a street family and in institutionalised care) as defined by USAID (7). The beneficiaries are also children who are or become homeless because the circumstances of life which are beyond children’s control.
• • The Outcomes
With the influencing support or money donated, the following changes will be expected:
√ Reduction in the number of street children
√ Cut in numbers of homeless children
√ Better food supplements for children’s well-being and welfare
√ Reduction of malnutrition for these children
√ Increase in the number of street and homeless children returning to education
√ Rise in the number of rescued children from the streets
√ More and better access to healthy shelter for street and homeless children
√ More happy and healthy sheltered children in Africa
Etc.
• How to Donate
You can donate either influence or money or both.
• • Donating Influence
To donate, please contact influential persons (or those having the keys) to reduce or solve the detrimental effects of the crises that the African unsheltered children are suffering from, and make these persons reduce or end these negative effects from these crises on them.
You can as well influence the things or factors that determine child streetism and homelessness in order to create lasting favourable healthy shelter conditions for these unsheltered children.
Please also let CENFACS know about your influencing work or contribution you are or will be making and its outcome on behalf of the street and homeless children of Africa.
To let us know, you can contact CENFACS as follows:
*over phone
*via email
*through text
*by filling the contact form on this site.
On receipt of your message or information on influencing donation, CENFACS will contact you for record and thank you for any influencing donation made. However, should you wish your influencing support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.
• • Donating Money
You can donate money, pledge and make a gift declaration to support.
• • • Making a Money Donation
You can make a donation of £5 or more to support Street and Homeless Children in Africa (SHCA).
• • • Making a Pledge
You can make a pledge of £5 or any amount more than £5 to support SHCA.
• • • Making a Gift Aid Declaration
You can make a gift aid declaration to support SHCA.
All donations, pledges and gift aid declarations MUST be made payable to CENFACS (the Centre for Francophone African Development).
To avoid fundraising frauds and scams, CENFACS would like to ask to all potential funders and donors to contact us prior to making any donations, pledges and gift aid declarations.
• • • How to Donate Money
You can donate
*Over phone
*Via email
*Through text
*By filling the contact form on this site.
SHCA will be very grateful if you could donate to their noble cause of accessing healthy shelter. Your support will halve the number of SHCA who do not have a healthy sheltered life.
Please DONATE, PLEDGE AND MAKE A GIFT AID DECLARATION of £5 or any amount more than £5 as a way of supporting their appeal. CENFACS will enthusiastically accept, on behalf of the beneficiaries, your given support.
CENFACS welcomes any enquiries and or queries about this humanitarian relief appeal.
Please do not wait to donate as the needs are NOW pressing and urgent.
We look forward to your support to make helpful difference to those children in pressing needs of survival and of coping with both streetism and homelessness.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give your Positive Influence or Money and help save the lives of the street and homeless children in Africa.
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• References
(1) https://www.futureofafrica.org/site/future-of-african-mission (accessed in January 2024)
(2) https://www.africanews.com/2023/06/08/music-offers-hope-for-kinshasa-street-children/ (accessed in January 2024)
(3) https://www.agenziafides.org/en/news/74286-AFRICA_MALAWI_The_plight_of_Malawi’s_15,000_children (accessed in January 2024)
(4) United Nations Children’s Fund (2023), The State of the World’s Children 2023. For every child vaccination, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, Florence, April 023
(5) https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rakings/homeless-by-country (accessed in January 2024)
(6) https://www.goalglobal.org/stories/18,000-street-children-in-ethiopia (accessed in January 2024)
(7) yapi.org/childrens-rights/street-children/ (accessed in January 2024)
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How you can further support CENFACS ▼
You can help by
● Sending a one-off voluntary giving ● Sending a yearly contribution to CENFACS ● Providing a legacy or donation ● Sponsoring a particular project, need, cause or programme ● Promoting particular events or publications or even activities
You can as well support with No Direct Cash Donations
Those who would like to support CENFACS by using other means than directly giving cash, they can consider the following.
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Give unwanted goods and items to CENFACS charity e-store (details about this way of supporting are given below)
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Sign up for a Gift Aid declaration
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Nominate CENFACS for a donation at charity fundraising and donation events
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Select CENFACS as your preferred charity for donation from advertising revenue
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Choose CENFACS as a donation recipient of some of the profits raised from online shopping
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Donate your unwanted and unused points and cashback to CENFACS as your chosen charity from your loyalty shopping rewards or good cause gift cards
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Name CENFACS as your favourite deserving cause from click online option “donate cashback to charities”
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Donate any unwanted excess points of your loyalty card from apps
The above is just the few examples of helping that one can think of to support CENFACS without they have to directly give cash.
Supporting by Donating Unwanted Goods and Products for CENFACS Charity e-Store ▼
You can donate unwanted and unneeded light and easily movable goods and products to CENFACS’ Charity e-Store to support good and deserving causes of poverty reduction.
After donating products or goods, these will be converted into cash to support good causes or our work. The cash converted can also be used to support CENFACS‘ work.
When thinking of donation, please ensure that your donation does not bear high costs for us to handle, otherwise the impact you want to create through your giving will be reduced or nullified.
Items to donate include:
Mobile phones, IT accessories, laptops, digital and communication devises, art and design objects, children gadgets and toys, and miscellaneous.
Notes for goods and products donors (Products Acceptance Policy):
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- We do not take electrical equipment and devises
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- Items donated need to be functioning, not requiring fixing, repair or testing prior to use
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- Products given must have environmentally-friendly contents and be sustainable
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- We do not accept heavy items such as books, metals and a heavy bag of clothing
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- We do not take items requiring large storage capacity as we are not a profit making organisation
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- We do not refund or give back the products donated as we expect products givers or donors to act in good faith and in the interest of poverty alleviation
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- We do not take stolen properties or items in dispute
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- We can arrange for collection if you live locally
Help us to convert your unwanted goods or products into cash to help reduce poverty.
To donate or enquire about your products donation, please contact CENFACS.
Thank you for your support!