Poverty is the prime cause of the street children crisis. Children from well-off families do not need to engage in child labor or beg. They live in houses, eat well, go to school, and are likely to be healthy and emotionally secure. However, poverty dumps a crowd of problems onto a street child causing not only suffering, but also conspiring to keep the child poor throughout his/her life.
In order to survive, the poor child will probably be forced to sacrifice education and training; without skills the child will, as an adult, remain at the bottom of the economic heap. Child Restoration OUtreach – CRO Uganda strives to help where it can; providing some formal education, as does mainstreaming of children into government schools and offering sponsorships to private schools.
Vocational training centres are a pragmatic, but powerful, tool to assist children in escaping the poverty trap. Children learn skills such as jewellery-making and tailoring, hair-styling, auto-mobile repairs, e.t.c,which also proves to be valuable to them.With such skills and training we are sure the children can live an independent self-sustaining and productive adult life.