{"id":1410,"date":"2010-04-02T21:12:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2010-04-02T21:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:14:05","slug":"visiting-street-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"Visiting ‘Street children’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shalini Raman and Jasmine Anilmis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Today we visited the ‘Raising hope organisation’ which is just outside of Kampala, which has been set up to support children who live on the street, (street children). We were greeted by the founder of the orgaisation, Patrick, who had previously been to see us the day before. We were instantly welcomed by the children with hugs and chatter and never before have I been welcomed so warmly, and yet, these were young children that we have never met before.\u00a0 We spent some time talking to the children and it was lovely to be around such enthusiastic children. Patrick gave us a tour of the centre, including where the children sleep and learn. Each bedroom had around 2-3 bunk beds with 2-3 children sleeping in each one of the beds. It was very inspiring to see babies to teenagers living in such a small spaced area together. Every single child appeared to be full of happiness. Patrick is just 19 and has managed to create this project himself.<\/p>\n

Just before we said our farewell the children performed a song and dance for us and encouraged us to join in, and everyone appeared to be having a great time.<\/p>\n

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We then visited the Katwe youth development centre in Kampala which is also for ‘street children’. It appeared to be a very small village where the children lived and played. A group of young people performed some music to us, singing, playing drums, harps and dancing, which we all found amazing.<\/p>\n

After meeting the chairmen we were given a tour of the centre, where we saw where they teach the children skills such as carpentry. This aims to benefit the children in the future to earn a living from skills such as these.<\/p>\n

Today was so incredible and I wish it could have gone on forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we visit foundations supporting children who have lived on the street, due to such things as war, abuse or being orphaned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}