The LifeLine Street Children Project
With the ever-increasing phenomenon of “streetism” in the urban centres of our country, whose current number is estimated to be over 60,000, with urban Accra alone hosting over 25,000, poses a great challenge to our future survival as a nation, hence the need for a concerted collaborative effort by all stakeholders to stem this canker.
It is against this backdrop that AGREDS in partnership with UNICEF, Children at Risk, Netherlands and the Local Assemblies of God Church established this project at Agbogbloshie in Accra to provide employable skills training, formal education, shelter, food and medicare for street children, mostly migrant girls popular called “Kayaye” and finally resettling/reintegrating them in their home communities to make use of the skills acquired for a decent living.
Over 500 girls have been equipped with employable skills and reintegrated into their home communities since the establishment of the training centre in April 2002. As part of the resettlement programmes, about 60% of them have undertake a Peers Educators training prior to their graduation and facilitated through our Community sensitizations programmes to educate their peers at home on the risks associated with child migration.
