Street Child of Sierra Leone (commonly referred to as Street Child or SCoSL) is a

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-based charity employing local people in

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which was founded in 2008 by Tom Dannatt, a businessman in London.Jozwiak, G
"The hunt for the lost children of Sierra Leone"
The Independent, 2011Searle, T
"Running for charity: why Tom Searle is doing the Cambridge Boundary Run"
Varsity Blues, 2011.North, P
"How one small charity survives by cutting costs to the bone"
The Guardian, 2011 Its stated mission is to reduce the number of children living on the streets by reuniting them with their families and putting them in long-term education.

Street children

ScoSL and their team of local staff have established

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centres providing food, counselling, clothing and medical care in order to encourage children to get off the street.First News
2012.The Big Give SCoSL charity page
Access date: 23 January 2012. These children are then reunited with their families who receive financial as well as managerial support from the charity so that they can set up small businesses and receive a steady income in order to be able to enrol, and keep, their child in school. In cooperation with a NGO in Sierra Leone calle
Help a Needy Child
(HANCi-SL), Street Child has reunited over 1,000 street children with families and placed them into school. Reports by the charity have shown that 95% of the children in the program continue their education and stay off the street.

Every Child in School (ECiS)

This programme was set up by ScoSL in response to the 2nd Millennium Development goal, achieving universal primary education by 2015. Every Child in School (ECiS) provides teacher-training, services and material provisions to impoverished, outlying rural areas where children have had no previous access to education. Through the ECiS programme, twelve school structures have been constructed in remote, rural communities around Sierra Leone providing education for around 2,000 children.

Head count investigation

In 2011, SCoSL paired with StreetInvest, a British organisation, in cooperation with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs, to conduct the first ever investigation into the actual number of children living in the streets of Sierra Leone. The investigation was carried out by local volunteers with expert knowledge in the field who were able to identify and have access to key sites where street children could be found.

Patrons

* General Lord

Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt General Francis Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt, (born 23 December 1950) is a retired senior British Army officer and member of the House of Lords. He was Chief of the General Staff (head of the Army) from 2006 to 2009. Dannatt was commissioned ...

, former head of the

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Sia Koroma Sia Nyama Koroma (born on 19 March 1958 in, Kono District, British Sierra Leone) is Sierra Leonean biochemist and psychiatric nurse. She served as First Lady of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 - 4 April 2018. She is the wife of Ernest Bai ...

, First Lady of Sierra Leone *

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, Romanian-Australian businessman

References

External links

Street Child of Sierra Leone

Kiln Sierra Leone Marathon
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