South Africa

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• Ons Plek Shelter A temporary home for young runaway girls fending for themselves on the Cape streets. Councilors aim to reconcile and reunite children with their own families as soon as possible.
• Youth - KwaZulu Natal Programs for street outreach, short-term residential, family re-unification and prevention.
• Kids Helping Kids Provide residential homes for abused and abandoned street children in South Africa.
• The Homestead South African organization that helps street children rebuild their shattered lives.
• Tereo Project for Children at risk Christian organisation with a mission to provide schooling and care for street children and children at risk in Southern Africa, particularly children that are victims of poverty, crime and AIDS.
• Othandweni Provide basic care, court support, health care, training and recreation to the street children of Hillbrow.
• BBC News | AFRICA | SA youths tell of street life Two young South Africans describe how they survived violence and drugs as street children and how they ended up on the wrong side of the law.
• Adolescence Psychological characteristics of South African street children.