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What is Streetlight Canada?
Formed in 2007 by students at the University of Alberta, Streetlight Canada (SLCA) is a not-for-profit organization that helps to raise awareness and funds for underprivileged children in the Philippines. Our parent organization, Streetlight Philippines, aims to help these children by hosting a variety of programs.
Streetlight Canada assists in these endeavors by fundraising throughout the year, sponsoring some of the children, and helping to form new initiatives!
What is Streetlight?
Founded in 2005 by Norwegian Erlend Johannesen at age 22, Streetlight is a charity in Tacloban, Philippines that helps orphans, street children and families in poverty. Streetlight uses a community based approach, focused on providing basic necessities, keeping children in school, and reintegrating children back into a family. Facilities include:
- A shelter which houses, feeds, and cares for over 20 children, in a stable, family-like environment, teaching them basic social and life skills. All children attend school and are prepared to be placed back in a family.
- A school centre which over 60 children attend, providing poor children with uniforms, school supplies, and after school tutors, allowing them to attend and succeed in school.
- A gym available for children from the street and at the centre to play sports.
- Night-walks which providing monitoring and supporting local street children. This includes providing food, monitoring their situation, and helping in the case of severe injury or disease.
Making the difference:
Streetlight does an amazing job of helping these children and there are many compelling stories. One year ago, Streetlight's social workers found dying 5-year old twin girls. The girls were suffering from TB, pneumonia, and severe malnutrition. After two weeks in the hospital, the doctors advised Streetlight to place the girls in a public hospital and let nature takes its course. Streetlight decided against this and today, these two mischievous twins have fully recovered and are attending school.
Find out more about the current projects in which Streetlight Canada is involved here.
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