Gender Justice Appeal

Developing highly focused, local responses that give children the opportunity and support they need to leave the street.

War and poverty forced Innocent to live on the streets of Bujumbura, Burundi aged 4. He faced capture and punishment from the authorities and aggression from older boys; he would struggle to find food and shelter.

Amos Gender Justice partners work with children, using local responses to engage with children, address their trauma, and give them the support they need to leave the streets.

Innocent never thought he would ever leave Burundi, let alone play football representing his country in the Street Child World Cup, or visit the UK to learn English and share his experiences with us at Amos Day 2015.

Innocent now works as part of New Generation’s Outreach team, engaging with other street-connected children currently surviving on the streets.

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Our range of resource and fundraising packs, blog posts, downloads and products have been produced to help you find out more about Amos Street Justice.

Diary

Days Like These Saturday 20th September

Billy Bragg has announced ‘Days Like These’, a fundraising evening of music, spoken word and film for Amos Trust’s Gaza appeal at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on Saturday 20th September. Full details.

The Big 4-0 Fund Let’s keep doing hope — together

This year marks 40 years of Amos Trust. To celebrate being in our 40s, we’re launching a year-long series of bold, beautiful and ‘deeply Amos’ projects — each rooted in justice, creativity and solidarity.

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40 Years of Doing Hope Saturday 20th September

This year, Amos Trust turns 40. Join us as we gather with friends, supporters, partners and special guests to look back on four decades of creativity, solidarity and hope in action.

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Seeds of Hope book More Thoughts and Reflections from Amos Trust

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Our second book of poetry, prose, creative writing and reflection is now available. ‘Seeds Of Hope: More Thoughts and Reflections from Amos Trust’ has contributions from Zena Kazeme, Arundhati Roy, Ben Okri, Cornel West, Angela Davis, Robert Cohen, Maya Angelou and our partner Abdelfattah Abusrour. “What a wonderful collection of writing — rich, deep, broad, funny, touching, angry, and, most importantly, encouraging.” Brian Eno — producer, musician, writer and artist.

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Blog

Stories of Hope Doing Hope in... South Africa

Lindo and Mpendulo from Amos partner Umthombo Street Children visited the UK from Durban, South Africa, in May this year. As well as visiting supporters nationwide, they spent time in Tower Hamlets, London, with a former Umthombo volunteer. Karin Joseph writes.

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Stories of Hope Doing Hope in... India

“With the Street Child Cricket World Cup being hosted in Chennai last month, it was a perfect opportunity for me to take some volunteers to visit Amos Trust’s partner and the inspiration for our visit, Karunalaya.” Katie Hagley writes.

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Stories of Hope Doing Hope in... Tanzania

“Mwanamke Mwenye — Superwoman”, said the 18-year-old holding her young baby; the rest of us replied, “Superwoman — Mwanamke Mwenye.” Chris Rose writes about his recent visit to Amos partner Cheka Sana Tanzania and an update from their StreetBorn programme, working with young women on the streets of Mwanza.

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Stories of Hope Doing Hope in... South Africa

This month, we share three stories of hope from young women who are benefiting from Umthombo’s Independent Living Programme in Durban, South Africa.

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Street Justice Web gallery

Amos Street Justice images and films from our projects around the world – Burundi, India, South Africa and Tanzania. Images by Bex Morton, Jules Klass, Tom Merilion, Christoph Stulz and Wilf Whitty.

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