"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller" Welcome to the Western Cape Street Children’s Forum  NPO number: 069-906-NPO As
a vibrant, dynamic and high-impact network,
the WCSCF is acknowledged
as representing most, if not all of the
professional Street Children Organisations in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Our
mission is to effectively engage
government, business, the wider community, other sectors, as well as
service providers towards the provision of practical solutions to the
very challenging issue
of Street-affected Children. The WCSCF aims
for a collective response, one
that crosses organisational and political boundaries, identifies
and fills service
provision gaps, creates
new and collective solutions, as well as providing
capacity building, information and
skills sharing and training opportunities to organisations working
with vulnerable street-affected children. Proof of the WCSCF and its members effectiveness can be seen in the number of children living on the street declining, over the last ten years, by 93% throughout the City of Cape Town region. At the same time stats show a continual rise of children entering care, as well as a rise in our ability to effectively place children in alternative care or even to sustain family reunification. Over the years WCSCF member organisations have developed national best practice models and a holistic programme of prevention, outreach, residential care, and family reunification services with WCSCF support. We still however face many challenges with children living, working and begging on the street. For instance we continue to work with the many children who come onto the street during the day to beg, the Taxi children of Khayelitsha, girls involved in prostitution, refugee and unaccompanied foreign minors, as well as the many extremely vulnerable children wandering around township streets during the day, all of which are "Street-Affected". We also still have to deal with the constant influx of children moving onto the street. How to report a Street Child Think Before You Give Note: There are no images of Street Children on this site as its illegal in South Africa to use images of children without their parents signed permission. 24hr Emergency reporting number for children in need of Care and protection: |
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