Project Summary

A grant has been awarded by Trust Greenbelt to establish an arts and creative play project with Umthombo Street Children in Durban, South Africa. The project will also be supported by Street Action and Amos Trust.
Umthombo has recently been commissioned by the municipality to take over the running of a street child drop-in centre. This project aims to support the running of the drop-in centre in the following ways:

• By making the drop-in centre a street-child friendly location; one which street children feel comfortable and at home in and also one in which they can take pride
• By developing a creative arts and play based programme with the street children
  
• By supporting the training of a number of Umthombo workers (most of whom are former street children themselves) to run and develop this work