A Non government organization, named Save The Street Child Foundation (SSCF), has came to rescue for hopeless street kids by giving them hope to feeds and enroll them to school.
The organization was founded by Israel Balogun which is giving hope to wandering street kids Armed with strong determination and undeterred purpose, the foundation said its biggest objective is to ensure that poor and disadvantaged kids wandering on the streets are given a ray of hope through the lengthy arm of education tripod: classroom learning, skills acquisition and scholarships.
Israel Balogun, its founder, told Legit.ng in a conversation: “Our goal is to save children who live on the street by either returning them home to their parents or providing a shelter for them and giving them scholarships to go back to school or learn a skill.”
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He said the foundation visits the streets and under-bridges where some of the homeless kids sleep and embrace them with life-changing offers beginning with food and clothes.
They are then enrolled in schools after reorientation and rehabilitation on scholarships solely powered by the foundation. “We visit them where they sleep under the bridge, market or parks and offer them the scholarship,” he said.
On speaking about the source of income of the organization, He said, the Save The Street Child Foundation expenses are run with personal money and individual donations and there are 25 kids currently under the custody of the foundation whose mandatory needs like school fees, uniforms, books are being catered for.
He said: “We have estimated of 85-120k for per year for a child that we are able to take back home the covered his/her school fees, uniform, books, shoes and launch food with some other needs. Basically, every child we saved from the street is sponsored by the foundation.”
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