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The Alas project that Street Kids Direct supports in Honduras has reported that 4 of the boys in the mentoring programme have passed the entrance exam and were offered places in prestigious residential Christian school, El Sembrador (“The Sower”). The boys are some of the most academically capable in Alas, but are from some of

Thanks to your support we have been able to open a new mentoring centre in Guatemala City. The centre is based in Santa Faz, a developing slum on the outskirts of the city.  We are renting a small shop that we have converted into a safe space for the vulnerable children and youth we work

Over the last two weeks we have been able to offer a safe refuge to a lovely family who grew up and lived in a dangerous part of Guatemala City.   The boys were struggling because the local gang were trying to recruit them.  When the older boy refused the family started to get voice messages

The SKDGuatemala team have been supported by students from the Social Services Department of San Carlos University in Guatemala City to help trial a new parenting programme. The programme helps parents understand the impact the decisions they make have on their children, how to effectively parent, how to best support their children and help keep

Street Kids Direct has been working hard over the last few years, together with other organisations and the Guatemala government to help provide effective child protection systems and resources in order to keep children and particularly at-risk children safe.   For the last two years we have been coordinating efforts to advise the Guatemalan government

Over the last two years Street Kids Direct have worked hard with their partners to keep over 600 at-risk children in education as the government-run schools in Honduras and Guatemala closed due to the COVID pandemic.   In Guatemala over 109,000 children dropped out of education during the first year of COVID, according to UNICEF,

Street Kids Direct is very grateful to a team from WGM in the USA who came to spend a week with the SKDGuatemala charity in Guatemala.  Three of the team were children who were flying for the first time!   Their week consisted of working with the children in the two mentoring centres and organising