On Her Terms: 2018–2023

If a girl is on the street for more than a week, the likelihood is, she will never be able to leave. 
Umthombo — Durban, South Africa.

Background

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

Amos Trust has 30 years’ experience of working with children on the streets of South Africa. In 2010 we set up the Street Child World Cup with 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 that we had to step back and refocus our work to address the massive gap in effective responses for girls on the streets. 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.

In October 2018 we brought frontline workers from these programmes together with a few other select organisations on a similar journey. In a week-long workshop, they shared their learning and their challenges. They worked together to identify how they could make their responses, which are often very fragile, stronger and more effective.

Our learning from 2018 shaped the different strands of On Her Terms, which is a campaign, a methodology and a space. Please click here to read more.

On Her Terms: sharing knowledge about working with young women and young mothers on the streets.