It is estimated that 7,000 children live on the streets of Kigali, Rwanda. These children (mostly boys) go to the streets looking for food and for a better life. About 40 percent of these children have homes and families, but are forced outside of the home for food.

Twice a week, Africa New Life hosts a ministry for street children at the Dream Center in Kigali. More than 300 street children flock to the Dream Center on Mondays and Thursdays for warm meals, water to wash themselves and their clothes, a worship service and to hear about Christ.

Africa New Life serves three types of street children:

1. Young children who have homes, but are forced to the street to beg.
When these children attend the street children ministry consistently and show a desire to return to school, the staff in Rwanda enters them into the sponsorship program.

2. Orphaned boys, or those who don’t have homes.
Africa New Life is opening the Umucyo (Light) Home, which will house 48 of these boys once completed. They will no longer sleep on the streets of Kigali, but through sponsorship will have the opportunity to return to school.

3. Street children who are too old to return to school.
Africa New Life offers a two-year vocational training program in carpentry and metal-smithing for 50 older street boys. These boys learn a marketable skill and are able to pull themselves off of the streets! For more information on the vocational training center for street children, click here.