Rent, Clothing & Food for an Ex-Street-Child in a Home: £91 for 1 Month / £21 for 1 Week

I love looking at children's drawings and paintings.This one's been done very carefully - they've used a ruler to do nice straight walls, although the one on the left and the roof on the right went ever so slightly wobbly. All the windows have lights on - maybe that's window-boxes or hanging baskets in the middle of the walls - so it's obviously a nice house where someone lives and looks after it.It's been coloured in very well - no flecks straggling over the outlines - although it might be that the inhabitants of this house were so cosy and happy inside that they forgot to put a door in until after they had painted their outside walls green! I'm sure that if you could step into this picture and walk up the garden path to knock on the green house's green door you would find a warm and friendly welcome, and probably an invitation to come in and have some tea.

It would be interesting to see what a child who lives on the streets would draw if they were asked to draw a house or 'where I live'. Would the house be like an inaccessible castle, high above any people in the frame? Would 'where I live' show paper bags used to inhale solvents from discarded by filthy sleeping bags on cold streets?

The children that Toybox has been able to help would be able to draw a very different picture after Toybox had stepped in to help them - Street Teams lead to Day Centre lead to Hostel lead to Homes lead to School & Training lead to Reintegration in Society.
With this present {scroll to 4} you'd be letting me share a little tiny bit in the care and security offered in one of the Toybox homes by 'mum' and 'dad', up to around 12 brothers or sisters, teachers, psychologists and social workers.

[ Toybox Charity, www.toyboxcharity.org ]