Case Studies

Neya's Story, Congo

Neya is 16 years old.  He is Congolese.  He lived for 3 years on the streets of Lubumbashi.  His mother died of malaria and his father, who was a soldier, disappeared soon after her read more...

Papi's Story, Congo

Papi is Congolese and 15 years old.  He was sleeping under market stalls when he first visited Kimbilio’s day centre in Lubumbashi, DRCongo 2 years ago.  His parents have both passed read more...

Dayanna's Story, Ecuador

Dayanna, 12 years old, lives in one of the most dangerous areas of Guayaquil with an extremely high level of drug-and-gang related activity. Dayanna worked as a windshield wiper to help supplement read more...

Maryam's Story, Morroco

Maryam is 11 years old and she should be approaching the end of her primary education.  In fact, she doesn’t go to school and hasn’t done so for several years. Maryam describes her read more...

Mabinty's Story, Sierra Leone

Mabinty’s parents were killed during the war when she was only 8 years old, she went to live with her grandmother, but she could not support her or feed her, let alone send her to school. Sad read more...

Joseph's Story, Sierra Leone

Joseph’s parents we’re murdered during the 11 year civil war by rebels when he was only 7 years old. His aunt took Joseph into her care and took him to one of the villages to live. Sadly read more...

Berkanesh's Story, Ethiopia

Berkanesh is 22 and lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her father died when she was 14 and for the last 8 years her mother has supported the family by selling onions.  Berkanesh says that the read more...

Biniam's Story, Ethiopia

Biniam lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with his family. When his mother fell ill, his father, a security guard, was unable to support the family on his small salary alone. Biniam was forced to drop read more...

Emebet's Story, Ethiopia

Emebet left school at 11 and when she was 18 she became pregnant, fell out with her family and left home to live on the street. Seven years on and Emebet is living with her daughter, and her two year read more...

Ajay's Story, India

Ajay is 19 years old and lives on the platform of a railway station just outside Mumbai. Before attending the Street Business training he was earning money by selling balloons on the street. His read more...

Ivy's Story, Zimbabwe

Ivy’s father was an alcoholic and abused both her mother and her. Ivy was sexually abused and when her mother reported this to the police, she was merely labelled a ‘problem child’. read more...

Christopher's Story, Zambia

This is an account by Street Invest's lead trainer Denise McEvoy of a boy she met in Lusaka. His name is Christopher.  It was 1.30 a.m. We were walking along a major thoroughfare and read more...

Ovidio's Story, Bolivia

10 year old Ovidio is a boy who has seen many troubles in his young life. From a very early age Ovidio had to work to try and scrape together some money to survive. Dressed as a girl, he worked as a read more...

Wendy's Story, Ecuador

Eight year old Wendy lives with her grandmother as both parents are addicted to drugs and living on the streets. When UBECI first met Wendy she was working with her grandmother at the vegetable stall read more...

Gabriella's story, Brazil

Gabriella was born  in Itaquera, East of Sao Paulo in a wooden shack, in the slum. She studied up to year five. Her mother was a drug dealer and her father a drug addict who used to beat both read more...

Rabi's story: India

Rabi was eight years old when he came to a day centre in Calcutta. He spent his nights at a separate night shelter. His father is an alcoholic and gambler.Rabi came to read more...

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