Brand new podcast episode on ‘In Conversation with Street Child’ This month, we speak to Jummai Musa, Street Child’s Country Director for Nigeria, and Matthew Page, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and former Nigeria expert for the US intelligence community. It’s been a decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 250 girls from a school in Chibok, around 90 of them are still missing. Abductions in the northern regions of Nigeria have become a recurrent theme – whether for...

Listen in to our latest episode of ‘In Conversation with Street Child’ featuring award winning Times photographer Richard Pohle, Times reporter Poppy Koronka, and Street Child’s Director of Marketing and Communications, Alice Lowden. Following Street Child’s hugely successful collaboration with The Times and Sunday Times Christmas Appeal, we discuss the importance of storytelling, photography, and humanising global issues – in a world of increased conflict and crisis, it’s easy to forget the...

Joining us this week is Doctor Jessica (Jess) Espey, political economist, and lecturer at Bristol University in south-west England. In the early part of her career, Jess worked for an international NGO, her focus was on women and children’s rights and how to advance them in policy development. During this time, she was given the opportunity to serve as a special adviser on the post-2015 sustainable development goal agenda within the office of the President of Liberia – this, she tells me...

Joining us this week is Ntakamaze  (TK) Nziyonvira, CEO of CIYOTA, an organisation empowering youth in Uganda. TK's journey began in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fleeing the horrors of war at just 11 years old. Finding refuge in Uganda, he navigated the challenges of being a young refugee. Despite the initial lack of motivation for education, TK persevered, driven by his father's guidance. Winning scholarships, he pursued education in Uganda and later in the United States.  With over 36...

Joining us this week is photographer and documentary filmmaker Apochi Owoicho. Street Child's recent F I F T E E N photography exhibition was inspired by a successful pilot programme which Apochi hosted in Nigeria in 2022. He was a key consultant on the development of the London exhibition, and helped facilitate the workshop in Nigeria. Host Sam and Apochi dive deep into the powerful idea that every image tells a story, intentional or not. They explore how the stories we tell about ourselves...

Joining us this week is Kelfa Kargbo, Street Child's Country Director for Sierra Leone. A veteran in the field of humanitarian work, Kelfa teamed up with Street Child CEO Tom Dannatt in 2008 to create an organisation that has fast become one of the biggest international children’s charities today. With an initial target of helping 100 children living on the streets of Makeni, they’ve gone on to transform the lives of tens of thousands of young people and families across the country giving...

Where do International NGO’s get their money from? What does sustainability mean, how is it impacting humanitarian aid? How can the international community keep up with the increase of global crises? Join us for ‘a Conversation with Street Child’ with Sam Ryder, international journalist and part of the Global Communications team, as we generate discussions which affect one of the world’s fastest growing children’s charities. Hear from local partners, front-line workers, global experts, CEOs...