Making school children out of street children Children living on the streets all over Europe is a growing problem. Now , high powered women, some men and a couple of youngsters have started a pilot project of IT education for street children and other deprived children. The ''Women of Europe Award in Sweden'' together with IBM Sweden opened the first EuroKids IT-center in Tallinn, Estonia, November 10th 1997. Local personnel are teaching children between 6 - 16 how to handle computers and to get an International Computer Driving Licence. In order to attend, the children must provide a stamp showing that they have been attending school the same day. For the first time ever, these kids are now going to school on a regular basis. We now have EuroKids IT-centers in Tallinn, Tartu, Kaunas and Vilnius. In Lithuania we are also working with visually handicapped and blind children. Our goal is to enlarge present EuroKids-centers and to open new EuroKids centers in Latvia, St Petersburg, the Czech Republic and Poland during the school year 98/99. We and the children have great hopes that their knowledge of IT and English may lead to participation in different European trainee and/or apprenticeship programs. We need more sponsors. The children need more computers, new software, more teachers, internet connections, paper, books, tables, lamps, chairs, food, shoes and clothes. We and the children also need mental support and maybe you have a greater vision. Together we can contribute, just a little bit, to a better Europe! - Let´s make the twentieth century the century of education and communication. Let´s start with the children and let´s start today!!