Hope and a Future: Empowering Street Children and their Communities to Rebuild their Lives

Summary

The purpose of this document is to make accessible some of the practices and principles of Child Restoration Outreach (CRO) as an information resource. It is not a comprehensive guide to working with street children; rather, it provides an overview of one approach from a practical perspective. It is intended to complement Viva Network’s Voice in the Streets, which covers multi-stage work with street children, by documenting an alternative strategy. CRO offers a useful comparison to the Colombian project on which Voice in the Streets is based, as CRO’s work is non-residential and focuses on resettling the children with their extended family.