The drop-in center is a very important place for the street children. This is where they get a daily meal, guidance and support to get back on their feet. It’s also the only place we can actively work to recruit children away from the street life. Some of the children we can reunite with their family members, but others we can help get a fresh start after being mistreated or abused at home. Others we take into the orphanage, and we give them a chance to start a new life from there. The drop-in has unfortunately been covid-closed in more than 8 months, but thanks to our Christmas campaign we managed to fundraise enough to reopen it and keep it running throgh whole of 2022.

A pandemic is always hitting the ones with less the most. The street children has had a rough few years now. Because of lockdown and restrictions related to covid we were forced to close drop in for 8 month. The street children didn’t have the safe meeting area as before. They’re being chased away from place after place, and it’s not long since their plastic houses was distroyed.

Even though life in streets is hard, children will always be children. They also need a place to relax, play games and just be allowed to be kids for a little while, and forget about the hard life they’re facing every single day. Drop-in is a place for this - a place where they can feel safe, play and have fun together, without having to worry about who’s watching them.

To be a street child in Zimbabwe doesn’t have an age limit, and we also have babies being born and raised in the streets today. The reason is that street girls are often owned by illegal mine workers who’s mistreating, abusing and raping them, just to dump them when they end up pregnant. It’s a brutal, but unfortunately true reality, and these girls need Drop-in more than anything. They need it to create a safe environment for their babies, and they need it to create a better life for themselves with the startloan to start their own businesses.

We are so thankful to everyone who contributed in our Christmas campaign, which we think is the most important we’ve ever had. These children deserved an opportunity to create a better future for themselves, and we are happy to finally be able to give them this again!