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Street Children's Initiative

With an estimated 10,000,000 children living on the streets in the 120 developing countries targeted by GPI, one of our top priorities is to rescue the entire population of street children in major cities and place them in loving, secure homes within their own country and culture—all within the next four years. In order to accommodate those who cannot be placed in adoptive homes, GPI plans to expand the Children’s Homes Initiative to provide food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care for at least 1,000,000 children.

GPI has inspired hundreds of thousands of families around the world to adopt a street child. Homes for the children are identified during the GPI Peace Rallies.

Starting Over

Many children in developing countries face the worst imaginable abuse and exploitation—they are kidnapped and sold into prostitution, sometimes hundreds of miles from their homes so they cannot communicate to find their way back home.

GPI has designed a program to rescue these children and teens from a life of utter despair by providing homes where the victims’ basic needs are met, while they receive training to acquire new vocational and life skills. In this way, we enable them support themselves and escape the prostitution rings. Some have even been able to trace their way back home.

Investing in these children who have no one to love, support, or encourage them is a very significant investment in our own future. Tragically, it is this population of directionless street children that generates most of the criminal element in the developing countries. It is also fertile breeding grounds for future terrorists. Helping them now can change the course of history!