The approach developed by SAFIRE to support children in street situations is based on the personal development of the child.
To do this, SAFIRE privileges a participatory approach in which the child plays a key role in the rehabilitation and reintegration process. Thus, our rehabilitation programs aim to accompany, mentor, and implement an individual action plan developed with the child. This action plan is closely monitored by the educator to achieve the best results so that the children acquire basic life skills, social norms and values and become independent in their daily life.
To achieve these objectives SAFIRE has developed a formula for intervention whereby a group of street children are “prise en charge” by a team of street educators.
Rehabilitation and reintegration programs through the Outreach program
One specific action of SAFIRE is the intervention in the direct environment of the child. Since its creation SAFIRE has always gone towards the beneficiaries and not the reverse.
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Our teams’ intervention aims at:
- Ensuring a protective environment and comprehensive support.
- Ensuring sustainable reintegration into the family, the school, the social environment and occupational.
- Contributing to reduce the vulnerability of children at risk. (The children who are exposed of physical aggression, sexual aggression, drugs and other social ills)
Our main activities are:
- Detection of street children through outreach program (where they are, the number, their current situation).
- Provision of children’s basic needs for food, shelter, safety, hygiene and health care.
- Support children facing criminal charges.
- Development of personal skills of children for employability through vocational training.
- Pedagogical workshops (literacy, non-formal education, music workshops, crafts …).
- School enrolment and academic support.
- Sport activities such as cycling, football, kickboxing and cricket.
- Counselling and guidance to families.
- Orientation of children who cannot be reunited with their families to appropriate structures for example in foster families.
