Historias y noticias

Exciting news from Zambia! After a long wait, the country’s first mobile school project is now up and running in the city Kabwe, thanks to a collaboration between StreetSmart, our local Zambian partner Unisport Academy, and the Belgian organisation Steunwielekes4Zambia. From now on, the mobile school will complement the outreach done by Unisport Academy by making learning accessible and fun, right where children live and gather.

In a decisive move to deepen its impact, our Sri Lankan partner Child Action Lanka relocated their mobile school from the tea estates of Nuwara Eliya to the eastern region of Sri Lanka near the city of Batticaloa in August 2024. While the mobile school operated successfully in cities like Kandy and Nuwara Eliya since the start of the project in February 2020, Child Action Lanka recognised a great need for outreach on the east coast, where many vulnerable communities remain underserved.

Next week Monday May 12, StreetSmart will officially start its second mobile school of the year via a new and promising partnership with S.A.L.V.E. International, an inspiring organisation based in Jinja, Uganda.

During our recent West African StreetSmart expedition our StreetSmart Wheels coordinator Sander Degeling made a brief stopover in the Togolese capital, Lomé. The purpose of the visit was to explore a potential new partnership with the Maison d’Accueil des Enfants en Difficulté (MAED) and to briefly connect with our active StreetSmart Wheels partners AGOPODE and Hälsa International.

En el corazón de Mendoza, se hizo realidad el sueño de muchos educadores de calle: el lanzamiento de una escuela móvil que brinde educación, alegría y esperanza a lugares que antes parecían inalcanzables.

¡Estamos emocionados y orgullosos de anunciar que la escuela móvil ha llegado oficialmente a Brasil por primera vez! Este gran hito ha sido posible gracias al generoso apoyo de la Fundación Forvia. La nueva escuela móvil será operada localmente por nuestro nuevo socio O Pequeno Nazareno (OPN), una reconocida organización con sede en Fortaleza, capital del estado de Ceará, en el noreste de Brasil. OPN es ampliamente reconocida por su trabajo comprometido con niñas, niños y adolescentes que viven en situación de calle o en contextos de alta vulnerabilidad social.

Nos complace presentar el kit de herramientas Live, Love, Unite, una colaboración extraordinaria entre MobileSchool.org y la Fundación Tomorrowland. Este recurso educativo único está diseñado para ayudar a los niños a adoptar su identidad auténtica, cultivar la creatividad y promover la unidad y el respeto por la diversidad. Con pósters bellamente ilustrados y videos interactivos con DJs de renombre mundial, el conjunto de herramientas ofrece una experiencia de aprendizaje atractiva e impactante. Disponible de forma gratuita, es una herramienta inestimable para los trabajadores juveniles, los educadores y los profesores que buscan inspirar a la próxima generación.

For the past two years, LEJO Aalst has extensively implemented the StreetSmart Impact tool within their organisation. In this interview, Jef Prové shares insights into LEJO’s mission, the importance of impact measurement in their work and their experiences with our StreetSmart Impact tool.

En un viaje reciente a Bolivia, nuestra entrenadora Junieth Machado, visitó la organización Sociedad San José en La Paz. Esta organización activa y dinámica ha estado trabajando durante más de 145 años con niños, adolescentes, jóvenes y sus familias. Su objetivo es unirse a nuestra red de socios.

During the first week of February, our first brand new mobile school of the year was launched in the city of Yaoundé in Cameroon. Our local partner NM House will utilise the tool to reach out to the numerous street-connected children in the Cameroonian capital.

From February 21 to February 23, youth work practitioners from the worldwide StreetSmart network gathered in Leuven for an enriching three-day seminar focusing on innovative and inclusive youth work practices.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, over 4.793.832 Ukrainian citizens have transited Romania. Most of the Ukrainian refugees are women, while 34% of the Ukrainian refugees are children. To meet the needs of these children, our StreetSmart partner Save the Children introduced a mobile school in the Romanian capital Bucharest in June 2022 to respond to the needs. In this interview with local coordinator Georgiana Dobre, we explore the challenges and successes of providing education and fostering connection for Ukrainian children and families since the beginning of the conflict.