Aadress: Preesi 5/7, 10320 Tallinn, Estonia

Tel/fax 37 2 677 4444, tel: 37 2 6117768

e-mail:  Peeteli@ngonet.ee , http://hot.ee/ade7/

Contact person: Avo Üprus

The aim of the is to help them by offering them the services of the Daily Care Centre, the night shelter and Christian Children Home, thus avoiding them remaining in the streets and at the same time integrating them into the society.

Activities:

Christian Children Home for the Street Children.

In January 1999 has been established the Christian Children Home for the street children. They could choose on their own if they'd like to live there or not, for there are certain conditions and rules to be followed, in case one decides to stay in this home. First and most important is that every child there must go to school, but had to do their utmost to give up smoking, sniffing glue, and other similar addictions. The children, who did not want to or could not go to school, still attend to the Daily Care Centre. Once a week these children were provided with food packages that were taken to Kopli district. Camping has been organized to the children in Saaremaa, Finland, Norway.

Daily Care Centre and the Night Shelter for the street children.

On March 31st 2001 the Daily Care Centre was opened and at present there (in the night shelter) live 9 children and every day come to the centre 20 children to have warm food, wash themselves and their clothes, do their home task, to communicate and play.

The activities of the Daily care Centre run are the following: finding the children who do not go to school, lack parental care; there must be established good, trustful contacts with them and we have to keep these contacts offering them possibilities to have at least once a day warm food, wash themselves and their clothes; give them some clean warm clothes. Finding out what is the health condition of the child, take him/her to the doctor's if necessary. Finding solutions to the problems of the child - restoring contacts with home (if possible), helping the child to go on with his/her studies at school or helping him/her to do their home task at the Centre (usually in case of these children there is no conditions at home to study).

Offering different kind of developmental and social skills teaching activities at the Centre. Offering them the model of a pro-social grown-up to follow by our own example.

In defining the risk factors we have to centre at the following fields - community and neighborhood, family, school, personal characteristics, the friends of the child.