Shine-A-Light

Shine a light recognizes that real solutions to youth homelessness emerge not from ivory towers or bureaucratic offices, but from grass roots organizations in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City. SAL supports these programs and provides the tools with which they can share their cost effective, culturally appropriate models. We are the medium that makes local solutions international.

This website compiles the experiences and successes of 230 organizations from Mexico to Argentina. Here you will find

Detailed descriptions of the NGOs with which SAL collaborates, with references to their methodologies, experiences, and skills.
Essays on the lessons of a dozen nations -- how they have succeeded and failed in their work on the street.
Essays on the contemporary situation in a dozen countries, describing life on the street and off it.
Indexes that organize NGOs by their strengths, so that you can write to the best programs around when you need advice and ideas.
A bibliography and virtual library on street homelessness
Links to international press, human rights, and fair trade organizations
Lessons on fundraising and how to find foundations that might fund your work
A bulletin board that allows organizations to ask questions, give advice, and help each other. [Under construction]
In collaboration with researchers, Shine a Light publishes "Essays to Understand the Street", a monograph series on the issues that are most important to children living on the street and the organizations that serve them. These essays attempt to bridge the gap between academic researchers and grass-roots social service agencies.

Specific Shine a light projects work to disseminate the best practices of work with homeless children. These resources will grow in years to come, but now you can access the following.

Hacia una Teoría General de la Calle: Research compiling the best work on the street in 49 different Latin American cities.
Proposal for street services in the Port of Veracruz: this work comes as the result of the Veracruz project, in which Shine a light fellow Mala Shah helped create the framework for the first programs for street children in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. The proposal is designed to be a model for other new programs.
Indigenous Solutions: This CD-ROM curriculum, developed in collaboration with the Maya NGO Melel Xojobal (to be completed in August, 2003) will provide tools to teach organizations how to serve indigenous children.

Further projects on street gangs, services for street girls, drugs, and various other topics will be available in coming years.




		Services for organizations that work on behalf of street and working children Shine a light recognizes that real solutions to youth homelessness emerge not from ivory towers or bureaucratic offices, but from grass roots organizations in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City. SAL supports these programs and provides the tools with which they can share their cost effective, culturally appropriate models. We are the medium that makes local solutions international. This website compiles the experiences and successes of 230 organizations from Mexico to Argentina. Here you will find Detailed descriptions of the NGOs with which SAL collaborates, with references to their methodologies, experiences, and skills. Essays on the lessons of a dozen nations -- how they have succeeded and failed in their work on the street. Essays on the contemporary situation in a dozen countries, describing life on the street and off it. Indexes that organize NGOs by their strengths, so that you can write to the best programs around when you need advice and ideas. A bibliography and virtual library on street homelessness Links to international press, human rights, and fair trade organizations Lessons on fundraising and how to find foundations that might fund your work A bulletin board that allows organizations to ask questions, give advice, and help each other. [Under construction] In collaboration with researchers, Shine a Light publishes "Essays to Understand the Street", a monograph series on the issues that are most important to children living on the street and the organizations that serve them. These essays attempt to bridge the gap between academic researchers and grass-roots social service agencies. Specific Shine a light projects work to disseminate the best practices of work with homeless children. These resources will grow in years to come, but now you can access the following. Hacia una Teoría General de la Calle: Research compiling the best work on the street in 49 different Latin American cities. Proposal for street services in the Port of Veracruz: this work comes as the result of the Veracruz project, in which Shine a light fellow Mala Shah helped create the framework for the first programs for street children in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. The proposal is designed to be a model for other new programs. Indigenous Solutions: This CD-ROM curriculum, developed in collaboration with the Maya NGO Melel Xojobal (to be completed in August, 2003) will provide tools to teach organizations how to serve indigenous children. Further projects on street gangs, services for street girls, drugs, and various other topics will be available in coming years.