Monday 25th March 2024 Today we enter Holy Week and prepare for the Easter celebrations and the completion of Lent.  It´s a time for reflection and for new beginnings and with this mind I reflect on the work in Guatemala and look forward to what is to come for us, as a charity, when I

Street Kids Direct are very excited that one of the boys who has come through the mentoring programme, Danilo Cuin, has been offered a two-year training placement with Rock UK, starting this September. Danilo will start with an intensive 3-4 month training programme in a variety of outdoor sports and experiences that he will be then

Thanks to funds raised on Radio Christmas and the support of Global Care UK we have been able to keep the Casa Alexis Children´s Home open in Guatemala City. The Protection Home was opened to offer a safe place of refuge for children and families at great social risk. The home has been used to

Street Kids Direct began receiving a large number of donations for 50p, £1 and £2 all of a sudden and wondered what was happening as the messages said “Let´s break those rules!” and we wondered what was going on! After some investigation we discovered that the donations came from parents of the children at Elangeni

Saturday 10th February 2024 Javier (photo: pink football shirt) is 10 and last week I was with him in the mentoring centre in Guatemala City and commenting on his really cool football outfit.  His matching shorts and shirt together with his football socks made him look like a real pro.  I have known Javier since

In 1991 the BBC broadcast its popular Sunday evening Everyman documentary programme and one programme in the series has impacted the lives of thousands of children in Central America.  The programme was called `They Shoot Children, Don´t They?´and highlighted the torture and killing of children on the streets of Guatemala City, in Guatemala, Central America.