April 2023 newsletter

Strengthening our resolve this springtime

The UN estimates that there are 150 million children worldwide who, for one reason or another, spend most of their lives on the streets. 150 million. This number haunts and saddens me, but equally strengthens my resolve to help make a difference.

The 12th April it is the International Day for Street Children and we, as members of the Consortium for Street Children, are proud supporters of this day. The day raises awareness of the rights of these marginalised children and their value in society.

That’s great for S.A.L.V.E. you say, but what can you do? Well – even just by reading this email – you’re supporters too! By subscribing to our emails and learning more about street connected children you are helping to raise awareness of this often overlooked group.

So if you can do just one extra thing this April, I urge you to share our emails and/or social media posts, or those of other organisations that support street connected children. Help us to shout from the rooftops about how important it is to strive for equality and safety for the 150 million young voices that normally don’t have a platform to shout for themselves. In particular, we will be sharing our new edition of our special “News from the Streets” newspaper, written by the children, with you on 12th April, so please make some time to read and share this if you can.

And from the very bottom of my heart thank you. Thank you for shouting loud and helping children on the street to be heard. Thank you for helping us on our mission for there to be ‘No Street Called Home‘ for children in Jinja, Uganda. Webale nyo!

The S.A.L.V.E. Summit and raffle

We have had to reschedule our S.A.L.V.E. Summit to Wednesday 10 May at 7:30pm. This is our online event designed to give you an overview of S.A.L.V.E. International as an organisation and an insight into how we are supporting street connected children and their families.

The winners to our raffle will also be drawn at this event. So please get your raffle tickets and sign up to our free event. We are excited to see you there!

Latest S.A.L.V.E. news

💃 In March we hosted our fundraising Ceili in Manchester which raised over £2,000 to be split between ourselves and The Pearl Trust, Uganda. Thank you to everyone who came and strutted their stuff!

♀️ We celebrated International Women’s Day with our inspirational team and young people in Uganda.

👀 In line with the day we also published our latest blog, “A street connected girl deserves the chance to dream”, which is well worth a read.

Lottery for Change

Congratulations to this month’s winner, Steve N, who won £100 in our Lottery for Change.

Would you like to be next month’s winner? For just £3 a month, you could be in with a chance of winning £100 and provide a street connected child with lunch for a week! Find out more here.

Webale nyo

None of what we have achieved would have been possible without the support of you, our global family. Thank you for continuing to be part of our community and for standing in solidarity with street connected children in Jinja as well as globally.

If you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We always love to hear from you.

With love and springtime sunshine,

Amy and the whole S.A.L.V.E. team

Each month the children we support in Uganda want to hear from your for our interactive debate. You can get involved either ahead of time or on the last Thursday of the month when our debate goes live via our website.