7 Barclays colleagues are setting out to battle their fear of heights, by working together to conquer London’s largest tree top experience, to raise funds for Street Child and help provide North-East Nigeria with livelihood support. Colleagues taking part include Asif Ahmed, Hudeyfa Nur, Katherine Ross, Fatima Elsayed, Kate Scott, Adrian Czechowski and Shahid Iqbal.

From life-saving education to humanitarian catastrophe, refugee crisis, shelter, food, and skills training Street Child will deliver 100% of your donation to N.E. Nigeria.

Nigeria is in the midst of a complex humanitarian crisis that has resulted in more than 19.1 million people in need of assistance. The northeast has been the epicentre of the violent insurgency led by Boko Haram and non-state armed groups for more than a decade. These competing crises has led to mass displacement of more than 6.8 million people.

Poverty is widespread nationwide: one in three Nigerians live below the poverty line - Since 2009, schools have been actively targeted, attacked, and used as sites for abductions and solider recruitment.

Nigeria has the largest number of out-of-school children in the world at a staggering 20 million (60% girls) - This is equivalent to more than the entire population of four West African countries combined: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania. High levels of gender-based violence, human trafficking, and early forced marriage are an ongoing and additional scourge on Nigerias human rights record.

Street Child are working hard to provide all children living in North East Nigeria are within a safe environment within their homes and communities where they can, grow, learn and develop.

Street Childs current programmes in North East Nigeria comprise of working in 15 Local Government Areas across Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states. Since 2016, Street Child of Nigeria has reached over 120,000 children with education and child protection programming.

Please help sponsor these brave colleagues and donate whatever you can and make a difference through provision of livelihood support to improve and stabilise household income, strengthen resilience and improve retention of children in school.