There are hundreds of thousands of children living on the streets, facing a daily reality of hunger, abuse, and violence. Many are forced to work in dangerous child labour to survive. Increasingly we are also seeing children on the streets who have been lured by traffickers, or forced to flee modern slavery. 

Our team go out onto the streets late at night to reach out to these vulnerable children, offering them safe and positive alternatives to exploitative work and life on the streets. We provide children with the food, medical care, clothing, and safe shelter they desperately need, alongside counselling and catch-up education to prepare them for brighter futures.

By donating the equivalent of an hour's salary you can #worktofree child victims of modern slavery. The living wage of £10 can provide shelter for a child at one of our centres for a full month.

Lemn Sissay, poet and Retrak Patron, praised our “beginning-to-end approach for street children that have been exposed to a way of life that they should never have been part of.” Inspired by the poem ‘Invisible Kisses’, we want you to help us open doors for children trapped in the keyless room of modern slavery.

Girls in particular are especially vulnerable to exploitation, migrating to the city with a dream of improved educational and employment opportunities, only to face a nightmare of exploitative domestic or commercial sex work. This has to end.

Following the success of Retrak’s pioneering project in Ethiopia, which saw 60 girls rescued from child domestic work, and 140 saved from traffickers, we want to reach more victims of modern slavery and support them to return to a safe and loving family home.

With our proven record and your help we can continue challenging attitudes which see children forced to leave their families and education to enter modern slavery. We will continue to empower communities to care for and protect their children from trafficking and forced labour.