SACCA UK

The Streets Ahead Children's Centre UK (SACCA UK) is a United Kingdom based charity set up to help the street children of Rwanda who continue to suffer the effects of the Rwandan Genocide. Children who have been left orphaned and abandoned.

History

The Streets Ahead Children's Centre Association (SACCA) was established in October 2003 as a response to the plight of the numerous street-living/working children of Eastern Rwanda. The organisation is based in Kayonza but reintegrates children across the entire country. SACCA began with three staff members (one local (Douglas Kakooza) and two expatriate (Philip Mark Ogle and Naomi Sterling)) and around 25 children. Today there are three centres, two for boys and one for girls, supporting 88 children, 32 staff members and regular volunteers. There are also 41 children who have been reintegrated with whom regular contact is maintained.

Shops

As part of SACCA’s work to encourage the children to help themselves, they began a number of income generating projects for the older children with the assistance of grants from The British Embassy, Kigali. The children have been learning how to print t-shirts, make soap and necklaces since February 2005.