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A warm drink and tasty meal

A warm drink and a tasty meal can build trust with a child who needs us. A child living alone on the streets can go for days without eating. The children we work with are often visibly malnourished and suffer terrible hunger pains. Today, you can buy a street child a warm, nutritious meal and a drink. Your gift will help build their strength and keep them healthy. Distributing food also helps earn the trust of children and increases their interest in other helpful services we can offer them.

Birth certificate

£32 Learn more and buy

A birth certificate can help protect a child for the rest of their life. When a child does not officially exist, they have no legal rights and are exposed to some of the worst forms of abuse. Traffickers kidnap them. Gangs recruit them. Abusers assault them. And the police, who should protect them, beat them and scare them. By buying a street child their birth certificate, you can help protect them from these dangers and ensure they can access the services they need to survive on the streets right now. As well as keeping them safe today, when you buy a child a birth certificate you open the door to a lifetime of opportunities – away from the streets.

Warm winter bundle

£38 Learn more and buy

A warm winter bundle can protect children from freezing temperatures. Unprotected from the harsh seasonal weather, many street children will struggle to keep warm this winter. Winter is an especially difficult time for children on the streets, particularly those who lack any kind of shelter. Children who work rag-picking during the day sometimes use their collection sacks to shield from cold winter nights or huddle up with friends to help keep the cold away. A winter sets in, your gift will provide a child on the streets with a warm winter bundle including a hot drink and nutritious meal, blankets, a hygiene kit to keep themselves clean, and winter clothing including a coat, hat and socks to protect them from the bitter cold. When our frontline workers hand out warm winter bundles to street children, some of whom will be surviving their first winter alone on the streets this year, children can see there is someone who wants to help and be there for them.

Clean clothes

£9 Learn more and buy

Clean clothes can start a child's journey away from the streets. Street children usually only have one set of clothes to wear every day. This is humiliating, leads to people viewing them as dirty and causes discrimination. A set of clean clothes including socks, a jumper, a coat and a woollen hat - can keep a child warm and improve their self-esteem. What’s more, when a child comes for a set of clean clothes, they can tell us what they need from us to help them leave the streets for good.

Child Rights workshop

£21 Learn more and buy

A Child Rights workshop can give a child the knowledge and skills to help keep themselves safe. Abuse, neglect, violence and exploitation are just some of the challenges faced by street children around the world. Your gift today will enable a child to attend a Child Rights workshops where they will learn about their rights and how to protect themselves. During workshops, children also have the opportunity to develop leadership skills, grow their self-esteem and plan for their futures. What's more, they also offer children a safe place to confide in trusted frontline workers about any issues they may be experiencing and receive guidance on where and how to report abuse.

Craft therapy session

£5 Learn more and buy

A craft therapy session will provide a street child with a much-needed safe space. Street children don’t often have many places to relax and have fun – the streets are full of dangers that force them to assume the roles and responsibilities of adults much too soon. Your gift will offer children the chance to relax, make new friends and be creative – in a safe space where they can share their feelings and experiences with each other and trusted adults. During craft therapy sessions, children can talk to frontline workers about anything that is on their mind and work through any problems they are having.

First aid kit

£25 Learn more and buy

A first aid kit can help us talk to street children about their other problems. Life on the streets is dangerous for children. Injury is common as a result of physical abuse and unsafe work. Yet street children are often denied access to the medical care they urgently need, especially if they are not registered. A first aid kit can help our frontline workers tend to children’s injuries immediately. The kit comes in an easy-to-carry bag and contains first aid essentials, such as bandages, dressings, plasters, wipes and ointments. Giving first aid and treating injuries also allows frontline workers to give children counselling to cope with the mental anguish of life on the streets.

Hygiene kit

£11 Learn more and buy

A hygiene kit will show a street child that someone cares. Living on the streets without basic sanitation leaves children exposed to many illnesses. This is made worse by the fact that they have no access to medicine, and many are refused access to doctors or hospitals. So, prevention is key. When you buy a child a hygiene kit, which includes soap, toothpaste, shampoo and a comb, you can help them stay clean, healthy and protected from disease. When we give these basic items, children also see that there are people who genuinely care about their health and well-being.

Period pack

£3 Learn more and buy

A period pack can ensure a child isn't excluded. Around the world, millions of girls drop out of school each year when they begin their period. Those who remain in school might miss up to five days of school each month. Today, you can buy a street child a period pack containing sanitary products and a mini hygiene kit. Your gift will not only ensure children can go to school with clean sanitary protection, it will allow them independence to manage their periods safely and with dignity. Distributing period packs also helps raise awareness about menstrual hygiene in communities, breaking the stigma attached to the subject of periods.

Sewing machine or tool box

£50 Learn more and buy

A sewing machine or toolbox can be the first step towards independence for a young person on the streets. Vocational training aims to give young people the opportunity to develop skills which they can then take forward to use in their lives which might help them to earn a living, support their future family or build a business. Your gift today will provide a young person on the streets access to programmes that help to teach them technical skills such as tailoring, mechanics and farming. For many young people, this can be a real turning point in their lives and their journey away from the streets.

Smart school uniform

£14 Learn more and buy

A smart school uniform can offer a street child a chance for a better future. In many of the countries Toybox works in, children cannot attend school without a proper school uniform. When a family's income is stretched, sending a child to school can have a negative impact on household income if that child is then not working. The associated costs such as uniforms can also often be out of many family's reach. Your gift today will help us work with families to help them understand the importance of education and their children attending school. Providing a school uniform to a street child could be the difference between them starting school, or missing out on education altogether.

Stationery pack

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A stationery pack can help a street child to succeed in school and build a future away from the streets. Stationery materials to carry out day-to-day lessons and homework after school are basic essentials for school children. Not only are these items important for learning, not having them can make street children stand out and face discrimination at school. Your gift today will help remove one of the barriers to education street children face and allow them to achieve their full potential.

Not just a gift catalogue

A warm drink and tasty meal

A warm drink and tasty meal

Birth certificate

Birth certificate

Warm winter bundle

Warm winter bundle

Clean clothes

Clean clothes

Child Rights workshop

Child Rights workshop

Craft therapy session

Craft therapy session

First aid kit

First aid kit

Hygiene kit

Hygiene kit

Period pack

Period pack

Sewing machine or tool box

Sewing machine or tool box

Smart school uniform

Smart school uniform

Stationery pack

Stationery pack