This is an appalling indication of the priorities of the world we live in.
Toybox's strategy, quite simply, is to make the world a better place for street children.
Our vision is of a just and fair world with no street children.
Our mission, today and for the next three years, is to positively change the lives of more than 40,000 street children.
Our strategy is to work with children, young people and families whose lives are connected to the streets.
Standing still is not an option for us. To deliver the significant progress we need, we will invest time, resources and energy into four key organisational foundations:
Innovation is anything that changes what we do, which has a positive impact upon street children, from small incremental changes to disruptive new ideas.
To ensure we are using our resources in the best possible way, ensuring maximum benefit for street children.
To have a reputation for impact, transparency, innovation and to be the organisation of choice for those wanting to support street children.
Storytelling to be the foundation for allowing us to be an authentic voice for and with street children
In 1991 the BBC aired a documentary about police officers shooting children living on the streets of Guatemala City. A British couple responded to this and Toybox was born - born out of a desire to challenge injustice and change the future for street children. Our unusual name, Toybox, was chosen to capture the visual representation that every child deserves a childhood free from harm in a loving, nurturing family.
During the intervening years, Toybox, with countless dedicated, skilled staff and the most loyal supporters, has expanded its work to reach as many street children as possible. We are working across Latin America, Africa and Asia alongside children who are:
Today our passion, commitment and reliance on Christian ethos remains undiluted, we are a compassionate and determined people based organisation in Milton Keynes, who completely believe that one day soon there will be a world with no street children. We are spurred on by anger and compassion that today millions of children are hiding under newspapers, sleeping on pavements, cowering in doorways; desperate to find food, desperate to find a toilet and desperate to be safe.
We don't want to exist; we want to be unnecessary, irrelevant, as no child will be forced to sleep on the streets tonight.
At Toybox we have one core value: Courageous