Gender Advocacy

Connecting the rights of young women to global campaigns for gender justice.

Amos Trust has 30 years’ experience of working with children and young people on the streets of South Africa. In 2010 we set up the Street Child World Cup with uMthombo, our local South African partner to transform the way society perceived and treated children on the streets.

Following the huge success of the 2010 and 2014 Rio Street Child World Cup, we decided to step back and refocus our work to address the massive gap in effective responses for girls on the streets and to look at why projects found it so hard to work with these girls, and what we could do to address this.

Between 2014 and 2018, with funding from Comic Relief, we worked with partners in India, South Africa and Tanzania to develop highly localised responses for girls and young women. We felt it was time for the next step.

Amos Trust’s On Her Terms campaign from 2018 to 2023 focused on the lives of girls and young women on the streets so that they can live free from abuse. We journeyed with them as they took control of their own lives, challenging the injustice they experience daily.

Following the huge success of the 2010 and 2014 Rio Street Child World Cup, we decided to step back and refocus our work to address the massive gap in effective responses for girls on the streets and to look at why projects found it so hard to work with these girls, and what we could do to address this.

Now, we continue to support our partners’ vital work with young mothers living on the streets, young women domestic workers and pavement-dwelling families. We connect the rights of these young women to global campaigns for gender justice, working towards a world where nobody is marginalised because of their gender.