Students Supporting Street Kids (SSSK) (registered UK charity, number 1070646) was set up in 1998 by two students, Johnny Glennie and Ben Phillips based on their direct experience of working with street children. Today in 2007 it is established in seven branches, and supports NGOs across eight countries. It has two main aims:

Large international charities campaigning on global issues get a lot of publicity and receive substantial donations because of it. That is just as it should be: the world needs to wake up and work purposefully to combat poverty, disease, environmental crisis, and change trade rules. But at the other end of the scale, not on the global arena but locally and individually, are problems just as deep and in need of urgent attention. 'Students Supporting Street Kids' is not one of those big charities and the work we do will not change the entire world. The children for whom we exist do not feature in the news. They will not be helped today by improved trade rules, and for some of them tomorrow will be too late. Street children have fallen through the nets of government programs and many charitable initiatives, and tragically end up as the most vulnerable people in their societies, becoming victims of abuse, drugs, lack of education and healthcare, starvation, and countless other problems we can only guess at.

The Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which we currently support are:

The projects we support work locally, dealing with the unique problems of each area and each child, one individual at a time, providing what they can with the money we give them.

For in depth descriptions of these charities and the work they do please see the main SSSK site's page.

An Oxford branch was originally setup in 1998, however this petered out until we restarted in Michaelmas term 2005.