PERMANENT HOME'S FOR STREET CHILDREN

Muslim Charity has been working with street children in Bangladesh for almost 5 years. Along with local ground partners we have established a mechanism to rescue street children.

We have several sites in Dhaka that act as informal schools to engage, track, and encourage children to come off the streets. These are manned by Social mobilisers and experienced staff who will rescue children into our transitional shelter.

The transitional shelter again based in Dhaka is where children will start their healing process. Its a safe place where we will start to extract the journey and story of the child as well as develop leads to find their families.

The children are kept for a maximum of 6 weeks and if within this time their families are found they are reunited with the support of government agencies.

For the children that have no family they are referred onto partner or government orphanages.

Street Children Homes

Children in most cases are suffering from deep trauma and have incredible difficulty in even remembering their parents’ names therefore making it impossible to find their families. Also where it is evident that the children are coming from an abusive family they will not be placed or forced back. In these cases children are referred onto Government or NGO run orphanages.

These institutions are usually dilapidated, underfunded, and have a significant drop out rate.

Muslim Charity are in the final stages of starting building our own homes for former street children. However, our approach is to build family homes rather than orphanages.

These homes will have an adoptive mother and an auntie who will form strong bonds with the children and therefore start the healing process for children to be children again.

The homes have been selected to be built in the Cox’s
Bazaar area in a rural village called Ramu. Each home will house 10 children and hopefully with 5 homes built over the next 2 years.

Please donate generously and help provide a brighter future for the rescued children.