Duncan Dyason MBE
Duncan Dyason is the founder and director of Street Kids Direct and the founder of The Toybox Charity and three charities in Guatemala.
In 1992 Duncan moved to Guatemala City, Guatemala, to work with the estimated 5,000 children who were living on the streets of the city. His first book MIRACLE CHILDREN won UK Christian Book of the Year in 1998 and tells the story of those early years and his numerous experiences of seeing God transform the lives of hundreds of abandoned and runaway children.
His second book THE LAST CHILD is due to be released later in 2024 and continues the story of God´s grace and power at work in the most challenging of environments.
Duncan continues to live and works in Guatemala City and now is embarking on his biggest challenge yet - to map the locations of street-living children around the world.
Introducing
MIRACLE CHILDREN
This second edition of Duncan´s award-winning book follows his early life and Christian conversion, followed by his call to Christian ministry and to work with street children in Guatemala.
Now available on Amazon in paperback, hardback and to download to Kindle devices.
Also available in Spanish.
Abdandoned
STREET KIDS
During the 1980s, the number of abandoned and runaway children rose greatly in Guatemala City, fueled in part by the civil war and subsequent migration of indigenous families fleeing the terrors of military conflict.
Reducing
THE NUMBERS
A BBC Everyman Documentary, "THEY SHOOT CHILDREN, DON´T THEY?" in 1991, highlighted the plight of the thousands of street children and how police and others were routinely torturing and killing them.
Honoured
WITH AN MBE
Duncan Dyason was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 for his 25 years of work with street children in Guatemala. The award was presented by the then Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.