Supporting street children in Pakistan

“Whoever does not show mercy to our young ones, or acknowledge the rights of our elders, is not one of us.” (Hadith Ahmad)

Forgotten, alone, and on the streets. Children living on the streets in Pakistan struggle to avoid exploitation and abuse. It’s impossible to have a childhood without someone to protect you. Our Aminah drop-in centre provides children living on the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, with healthcare, psychosocial support, a safe space, food, and skill development.

£920 / £76 per month - Change the life of a street child by providing food, a safe space, healthcare, counselling, and skill development, giving them a way out of abuse and exploitation.

No home, no education, no protection

A child on the street isn’t just struggling for food - they’re continuously at risk of exploitation, abuse, and unable to receive an education to improve their future.

An estimated 1.5 million children live on the streets in Pakistan. Many have been abandoned or are escaping violence, but some come from families that are so vulnerable that they’ve been forced onto the street.

How your support helps

When you support a child at our drop-in centre in Lahore, you’ll help to provide them with a safe space, nourishing meals and health checkups and medicine, counselling, and lessons in reading, writing, and maths.

Help a child facing daily struggle on the streets, heling them to build a brighter future.

This project is Zakat-applicable and you can calculate what you owe with our easy-to-use Zakat calculator.

A generation of change, a brighter tomorrow

With your help, we want to support a total of 1,000 street children for the next year, providing them with:

• essential health services, such as check-ups, medicine, and tests,
• counselling and child protection awareness sessions.

We’ll also provide:

• 250 children will receive daily nourishing meals
• 100 children will receive skill development and education classes, such as reading, writing, and maths, and help enrolling in a school.
• young adults with referrals to training institutes to help them learn technical skills and to have a vocation in adulthood.

Why donate through Human Appeal?

Last year, we helped a total of 3,843,279 people, including 1,656,490 people in Pakistan through our flood response, as well as projects that provided sustainable clean water, livelihood training, education, solar-powered electricity, and food security.

You can change the life of an extremely vulnerable child.

Be a mercy. Donate.

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