Railway Children

What is Railway Children?

Railway Children is a charity that helps vulnerable children living on the streets. Since 1995 Railway Children has helped thousands of children living alone and on the streets in the UK, India and East Africa.

For these children the streets are often the only means of support available, but this makes them incredibly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

What does Railway Children do?

Railway Children try to reach children on the streets before abusers do. As you read this, there are thousands of children worldwide who urgently need help and protection and for whom delay could be fatal:

Outreach workers fight a constant battle to protect as many children as they can, but that is only part of the story. Railway Children also believe in prevention and in creating a safer, brighter future for the potential street children of tomorrow.

How does Railway Children do this?

Railway Children have a 3 Step Change Agenda to achieve these objectives:

Step 1
Meeting the immediate needs of children on the streets: The first priority of Railway Children is to provide early intervention by getting to children on the streets before abusers can.

Step 2
Shifting local perception: Railway Children works to increase awareness in communities to make children living alone more visible and to help people see that they are children in need of care and protection, not commodities to be used and abused.

Step 3
Holding governments responsible: Railway Children works to get government support for street children through policy change and by making sure that street children have a voice at government level.

How can you help?

You can help by visiting the Railway Children website now and making a donation:

• £5 could provide a child with 3 good meals a day for 12 days in India
• £10 provides food, overnight clothing and toiletries for a child at a runaway refuge in the UK
• £25 will keep a child in formal education in India for 6 weeks
• £50 could pay for a child to be reunited with his or her family
• £200 will fund an outreach worker to make contact with children when they arrive on a platform in India

Please do this now - because if you think to yourself "I'll do it later" you probably never will (we all mean to do it, but life gets in the way and we forget).

And think how good you'll feel once you have!



Click here now to visit the Railway Children website