street to street introduction

Street To Street offers students worldwide the opportunity to engage directly with street youth in Sierra Leone as they try and get off the street and into education. Via film and an internet forum young people aged 12 -- 16 in Freetown will upload weekly videos, so UK students from several schools can respond, asking questions, building relationships or just cheering them on. For the Brits it's a massive and intense introduction to the hugely complex issues around the causes of poverty, and of the equally huge pitfalls involved in trying to help those caught up in it -- but one which makes it immediate and real. One teacher said

"it is a phenomenal insight and opportunity and it really does capture the kids' interest"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• sierra-leone
• street-children
• youth
• education
• freetown
• students
• vlogs
• communication
• poverty
• millennium
• goals