Historias y noticias

Tomorrow June 16th is the Day of the African Child. This day has been celebrated every year since 1991 when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity. The objective of the day is to raise awareness on the continuing need for improvement of the education provided to African children. The theme of this year's celebration is ‘Leave No Child Behind for Africa’s Development’. The 2018 theme highlights the need to ensure that ‘NO CHILD IS LEFT BEHIND’ by specifically targeting those who are not benefitting from Africa’s growth and development, like street-connected children and youth. In order to highlight this day, we recently did an interview with Sesse Koffi Awunyo, founder of the organization AGOPODE (Agora pour les Populations Défavorisées). Currently, we’re looking into the opportunity to launch a mobile school in Togo. During the exploratory visit, Sesse took the time to sit down and to answer some questions about street-connected children, street work and a potential mobile school in Togo. YOUTUBE TIP: Click on CC (bottom right) in the video to have subtitles in English.

If you would’ve asked me what I know about Leuven three months ago, as a proud inhabitant of the Kempen, I would’ve answered: the university, the beautiful centre and, of course, Louis Tobback, whose appearance and political style always make me think of a Danish dog. StreetwiZe • Mobile School? Wait… Streetwhat?

Marzo de 2018, Cochabamba. Mientras nuestras tres organizaciones socias bolivianas están creando sus propios juegos juntas, estoy conociendo mejor a mi coentrenador. Para mí, es muy inspirador pasar tiempo e impartir capacitaciones con esta mujer polifacética, creativa, espontánea, divertidísima, apasionada, honesta y fuerte. Como es una de nuestras formadoras de Mobile School, también tenéis el placer de conocerla un poco mejor. ¡Conoce a Toña Pineda!

Every day of the year, the street workers of our partner organisations take out the mobile school to unlock the potential of street-connected youngsters. In the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, the street workers of Glad’s House hit the streets on a daily basis to build a relationship of trust with the high number of youngsters living and working on the streets. During our last trip to Kenya, we took the time to sit down with one of them. Janet Otieno is a street worker and the coordinator of Glad’s House mobile school project. She is very passionate about her job as a street worker in Kenya.

Our new partner GTW in Gliwice, Poland went out on the streets for the first time this week with the mobile school. In the 1980s, Gliwice was a rich city that reaped the benefits of the active mining industry. Since then it has gone downhill due to the decline of mining in Europe. Unemployment hit Gliwice extremely hard and the population decreased by almost 20%.

This year StreetwiZe • Mobile School celebrates the International Day for Street Children on the 12th of April for the eighth consecutive year. After successful chalk petitions, #nostreetkidding, Street Sleep and #Streetwork, this year we will once more put street children all over the world to where they belong: in the spotlights!

I’m convinced my music preferences could tell you the same story as this Meet the Trainer article itself. Therefore, to enjoy this article to the fullest, I’d like to suggest listening to this song, it’ll help getting to know me better.

Thursday 26 October 2017 will stand out in the history of Mobile School. After a long period of preparations and some theoretical and practical workshops, the very first mobile school session in India finally arrived. Thanks to partner organisation EkTara, from now on the mobile school will be taken to the streets multiple times per week in the East Indian city of Kolkata.

En 2008, Arnoud Raskin conoció a Junieth Machado. Fue el comienzo de una estrecha cooperación y amistad. El modelo Street Skills de StreetWize se basa en parte en la inspiradora historia de Junieth, y ella sigue trabajando en Mobile School como cofacilitadora. ¿Está interesado en obtener más información? En esta entrevista, puedes conocerla un poco mejor.

Desde 2009, Rob Sweldens (34) forma parte del equipo de StreetWize • Mobile School. Desde entonces, Rob implementó 13 escuelas móviles y, al mismo tiempo, fue responsable de la coordinación y el seguimiento de las asociaciones internacionales. Desde 2014 ocupa el cargo de director de Mobile School. Es hora de darle la palabra a Rob para que hable sobre su motivación, su experiencia trabajando en la calle y el futuro de Mobile School.

September 1st: an exciting day for many parents and children. Off they go, back to school with their satchels and lunchboxes. For millions of children, however, September 1st is just a reminder of them not having access to a fundamental right: the right to education.

13 years ago, Bram Van de Putte knocked on the door of the Mobile School office for the very first time, looking for more outreach experience. He’s been actively involved in the organisation ever since, first as a volunteer and later as a Master Trainer. He already gave trainings in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bangladesh and Poland and he just got back from Greece. Time for an interview!