Campaign - CCF

I might be ignored but I am not invisible

Some of the children who were part of the first Lines of Grey Project in Arusha, Tanzania have left the temporary shelter CCF, for various reasons and are now back on the streets.

Lines of Grey is starting a new on-line campaign to raise funds to get some of these children off the street and enroll them in boarding schools in and around Arusha.

Though this is a departure from the Lines of Grey mandate, we feel it is our responsibility to find viable solutions to get as many of these children as possible into a safe and protected environment.

Street children are subjected to physical abuse by police, and governments treat them as a blight to be eradicated-rather than as children to be nurtured and protected. They are frequently detained by police simply because they are homeless, or criminally charged with vague offences such as loitering, vagrancy, or petty theft. They are tortured or beaten and often held for long periods in poor conditions. They are sometimes sexually assaulted, coerced into sexual acts, or raped.

Street children also make up a largest proportion of children who enter criminal justice systems and are committed to correctional institutions (prisons), often without due process. Few advocates speak up for these children, and few street children have family members or concerned individuals willing and able to intervene on their behalf.

All children have the right to health, shelter and education, to an adequate standard of living and to freedom from violence and harassment.

You have the power to change these childrens' lives. Educating them would give them both the protection they need and a possibility of a future.

Throughout history, human tragedies have often been the result of inaction and indifference of those who could have acted.

Act.

Help us set wrong right, one child at a time.

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