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	Join Amos Trust for the London launch of Brazil 2014 Street Child World Cup Amos Trust supporters are invited to join our friends from Street Child United for special launch events for the 2014 Street Child World Cup being in held in London next week. read more… 4 April 2012 Sports Bible shares stories from the Street Child World Cup. To mark the London Olympics, the Bible Society has published a special edition of the Good News Bible with over 40 inspirational sporting stories including stories from the Street Child World Cup. read more… 28 March 2012 Street Kids United returns to the big screen Street Kids United, the documentary film following the South African Street Child World Cup team is coming to UK cinemas this spring. read more… 15 March 2012 Street Child World Cup - the road to Rio begins The team of street children from Brazil who took part in 2010 Street Child World Cup will be in London next month to start the ball rolling for Brazil 2014. read more… 22 February 2012 Support A Way Back Home From surfing to social work, support Umthombo Street Children's pioneering work in South Africa. read more… 7 December 2011 Umthombo Surf Stars programme wins Beyond Sport award Amos partners Umthombo Street Children's surf programme as won a Beyond Sport award in the Sport for Social Inclusion category. read more… 7 December 2011 Street Kids United comes to London Find out how you can book tickets for the London premiere of Street Kids United. read more… 22 November 2011 For children on the streets there are no soft pillows The OHCHR held an event in Geneva earlier this month to discuss how best to help children living on the streets. read more… 18 November 2011 Surfing legend visits Umthombo. Surfing pioneer Shaun Tomson visited Umthombo Street Children and met the Umthombo surf team last weekend. read more… 17 October 2011 Cambridge to Oxford...and back on a bike for Umthombo Street Children 13 year old Finlay Cox has completed a 180 mile cycle ride to raise money for Amos' partners Umthombo Street Children. read more… 10 October 2011 Street Kids United - UK premiere at Cambridge Film Festival The feature length documentary about the South African team at the Street Child World Cup in 2010, has it's UK premier at the end of September in Cambridge. read more… 1 September 2011 Umthombo:40 - support Umthombo Street Children's birthday challenge. Cofounder of Umthombo Street Children, Tom Hewitt is about to turn forty and has set himself a fundraising challenge, Umthombo:40 to raise funds for Umthombo's ongoing work on the streets of Durban. read more… 8 August 2011 Ceramics exhibition inspired by street children An artist has created an exhibition of ceramics inspired by her time at Umthombo Street Children. read more… 12 July 2011 Tom Hewitt presented with MBE Tom Hewitt, cofounder of Umthombo Street Children has been presented with an MBE for his services to child welfare in South Africa. read more… 11 July 2011 Princess Anne Visits Umthombo HRH Princess Anne visits Amos Trust partner project Umthombo Street Children in Durban, South Africa read more… 8 July 2011 London to Brighton for Umthombo Street Children Cycle Africa are asking Amos Trust supporters to join them for the London - Brighton leg of their cycle ride to Cape Town to raise money for Umthombo Street Children read more… 13 June 2011 Art auction for Umthombo A British art collection has generously been given to raise funds for Umthombo Street Children. read more… 13 June 2011 Umthombo Street Children 24/7 This summer Umthombo Street Children in Durban, South Africa are asking supporters to help them plan for the future... read more… 25 May 2011 Street Kids United to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival A new documentary following Amos partners, Umthombo Street Children's football team at the Street Child World Cup will be premiere at the Berlin Film Festival read more… 1 February 2011 Tom Hewitt awarded MBE Tom Hewitt, co-founder of Amos Trust's partner project Umthombo Street Children has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List read more… 31 December 2010 MPs listen to street girls Amos Trust were involved in a historic meeting at parliament yesterday when girls living on the streets around the world got to speak to MPs about their lives. read more… 28 October 2010 One Voice exhibition opens One Voice, an exhibition of art inspired by and created by street children at the Street Child World Cup is now open at the Foundling Museum, Bloomsbury, London read more… 15 September 2010 Amos celebrates 25 years Representatives of all of Amos' partners around the world came to London to celebrate Amos 25th anniversary read more… 12 September 2010 Round ups of street children stop during FIFA World Cup News from Durban of the positive impact of the FIFA World Cup on the lives of street children read more… 24 June 2010 World Cup programmes for Durban's street children Amos partners Umthombo Street Children are running special sports & arts programmes for street children throughout the FIFA World Cup read more… 24 June 2010 Beyond the Fifa World Cup - Umthombo Safespace Umthombo Street Children's new 24-hour centre Safespace is nearly ready to open permanently read more… 23 June 2010 Umthombo inspired art at Howies gallery, Bristol Amos' photographer & designer Wilf Whitty has a piece of work in the Escape exhibition at Howies in Bristol read more… 21 June 2010 Blue Peter coverage of Street Child World Cup Watch a special edition of Blue Peter all about the Street Child World Cup on BBC iplayer read more… 27 April 2010 India victorious in first ever Street Child World Cup India beat Tanzania in a nail biting final at the Durban University of Technology read more… 21 March 2010 Clergy clash in football match Everyone from choir boys to canons put on their shorts and boots for a unique football fundraiser read more… 20 March 2010 Trafficked child reunited with family through Street Child World Cup Press coverage of the Street Child World Cup in Durban has led to children being reunited with long lost family read more… 19 March 2010 Umthombo run early year's centre on rubbish dump in Durban Amos' partner Umthombo has taken on the running of a centre for under 7s at Second Creek in the rubbish dumps of East London, Durban. read more… 2 February 2010 Andile: just one story Meet Andile - Captain of Umthombo's Durban all stars read more… 3 December 2009 Football Celebration Dinner Past and present Premier League football stars pledge support for Deloitte Street Child World Cup read more… 18 November 2009 Street Child World Cup new website goes live Street Child World Cup launches new website read more… 15 October 2009 Umthombo Co-founder on speaking tour of UK Tom Hewitt, co-founder of Umthombo Street Children is speaking throughout the UK this week read more… 28 September 2009 Channel Swimmer Mags makes crossing in 13 hours Amos Supporter Mags Alger swam the English Channel on Sunday night in aid of Umthombo read more… 28 September 2009 Tom Hewitt to speak at Amos Day 2009 Umthombo co-founder Tom Hewitt will be at Amos Day 2009 read more… 10 September 2009 Think of street children on Father's Day Supporters are invited to host a fundraising South African 'braai' or barbeque for the Street Child World Cup this Father's Day read more… 13 May 2009 Desmond Tutu endorses Street Child World Cup Archbishop Desmond Tutu has pledged his support of the Street Child World Cup read more… 2 April 2009 Street Child World Cup kicks off in London Street Child World Cup launched at special event in London last week read more… 27 March 2009 Street kids addicted to surfing From sniffing glue to riding waves with Umthombo's new surfing programme read more… 25 March 2009 Keep up-to-date with the Street Child World Cup planners blog Street Child World Cup are now blogging read more… 1 January 2009 The latest news about the Street Child World Cup SCWC UK Project Manager Jenny Dawkins provides an update on recent planning progress read more… 18 November 2008 Amos appoints Jenny Dawkins as new Street Child World Cup UK Project Manager We are very pleased to welcome Jenny as the newest member of the Amos team! read more… 12 September 2008 Short story competition winner announced Congratulations to Connie Ramsay Bott whose composition won our short story competition which raised money for Umthombo. read more… 10 September 2008 C2C 4 street kids 08 Twenty-five individuals cycled across England to raise money for Umthombo read more… Chris Rose 11 July 2008 C2C Cyclists are off and riding Amos Trust's coast-to-cost bike ride to raise money for Umthombo read more… 27 June 2008 Now I Am a Person at No. 11 Downing Street Wilf Whitty's book of Durban street children gets an auspicious launch read more… 3 May 2008 A short story competition with a difference to make a difference Enter a short story competition to raise money for Umthombo read more… 11 April 2008 Mandi's amazing story Mandi Ngantweni-Hewitt's story about growing up as a street kid in South Africa read more… 4 April 2008 Mandi and Tom in the UK Mandi Ngantweni-Hewitt and Tom Hewitt from Umthombo are visiting the UK read more… 4 April 2008 Durban street kids on YouTube Last summer Amos took four families to visit Umthombo Street child's work in Durban, South Africa. View the remarkable results on U tube read more… 9 November 2007 Legal support for Durban's street kids If you have Sky Sports you may have enjoyed their coverage of the A1 Durban Street Grand Prix. If you were a street child it was a weekend which will be hard to forget read more… Chris Rose 3 April 2007 A Visit to South Africa: Report by Chris Rose How does the widening gap betweeen rich and poor in South Africa affect the poorest communities? read more… 9 January 2007 Amos Partner Umthomo Street Child Joins New Policy Think Tank Sikhumbuzo Makhubela, (spokesperson for Umthombo) who is himself a former street child, and Tom Hewitt (chair of Umthombo) have been asked to be part of the policy team for the National Department of Social Development in South Africa. read more… 8 January 2007 Reflections on Visiting Durban - Gill Hewitt writes... 2010 is already considered to be a big date for South Africa - the football World Cup will be there and Durban will be hosting several of the games. read more… 13 June 2006 South Africa - Tom Writes The Umthombo teams have been hard at work in Durban. read more… 19 December 2005 Garth reflects on the work in South Africa Garth and Gill Hewitt took some time off over Easter to visit their new grandson in Durban - Tom and Mandi are delighted with the birth of Sabelo in mid March. While there, Garth attended the first board meeting of the Umthombo project, and here he offers some thoughts about this development of the work with streetchildren in South Africa. read more… 11 May 2005 Sad news from Durban Tom Hewitt has recently sent us news which highlights how precarious life on the streets in South Africa really is. He writes of the death of one of the first streetchildren he met in Durban; do please remember in your prayers Thulani, his family (on the streets and off), and Tom and the rest of the Durban Street Team. read more… 9 May 2005 News from South Africa (winter 2004) Tom and Mandi Hewitt have now settled back in Durban, after several years of commuting between Durban and San Francisco. Together with S'fiso Mdadane they are developing the ideas for the Umthombo Research and Action project. Meanwhile, the Street Team are gearing up for the influx of children onto the streets at the start of January. read more… 18 November 2004 Life on the streets in South Africa - Tom Hewitt writes Whilst studying at the University of San Francisco in the United States, Tom Hewitt (Amos' International Street Children Director) was very involved in developing the university's programmes and focus on Africa. Here, in an article first written for the university newspaper. read more… 29 April 2004 Plans for Amos in South Africa in 2004 2004 looks like being a very exciting year for Amos' work in Durban, South Africa. Tom Hewitt will be returning to South Africa, following the completion of his studies in the United States; we are making a lot of very important links with people and organisations; and these links are leading on to the formation of a new organisation, which we hope will continue to develop the commitment to the streetchildren which we share with many local activists. For details of this, and other plans, read on ... read more… 15 January 2004 South African Round-up (autumn 2003) It's been a busy few months in South Africa: the Street Team in Durban has a new vehicle, and are dealing with many new arrivals; we have two changes of personnel to report; there were plenty of South African visitors at Greenbelt in August; and a group of Amos ©ollective members enjoyed a memorable visit to the work in Durban, as well as to other aspects of the new South Africa. read more… 1 November 2003 Update from South Africa (spring 2003) The Durban Street Educators Team had a really positive start to 2003, being able in January to reunite 55 children with their families through the 'Back to School Programme'. What's more, they have a new member, which is allowing them to make contact with more children on the streets. read more… 19 May 2003 The Durban Declaration - a call to action from street children around the world The Durban Declaration - a call to action drawn up by the children taking part in the 2010 Street Child World Cup in South Africa. read more…	65@65 - Nothing to Celebrate Join our new campaign 65@65. Download our special campaign pack and host an event to help others find out about the situation in Palestine Find out more… Join the Amos Trust office team We are seeking an experienced administrator to join our office team. Find out more… Sign up for updates Sign up for our regular email newsletter Find out more…
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