Every year thousands of children across India, Africa and the UK run away or are forced to leave homes that have become unbearable through poverty, abuse, violence and neglect. Reaching a child as soon as possible is crucial before an abuser can. Girls specifically are in danger. They are grabbed off the streets and sold to strangers before we can reach them. They are forced into marriage or child labour. They are lured by sexual predators and sometimes never seen again. We must stop this.

We must try and reach them before an abuser gets to them. We have outreach workers and trained staff looking for vulnerable children. We work with partners on the ground to be our eyes and ears. Overseas when we find them we offer a safe place to stay and provide them with counselling, support to open up and help us solve the problems that made them run away. In the UK we work with families and communities and support longer term to ensure they don't run away again and have a positive future.