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Background
In 1994 Credo Foundation for Justice (CFJ) began an awareness-creating programme on the problem of children on the street, and in 1995 we began work on the street as our own response to that Programme.
Credo Centre was opened in June 1997 by CFJ in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development.
Drop-in Centre
Our Mission
The aim of Credo Centre is to reduce the number of children who live and/or work on the street by:
- providing a place of safety with developmental and remedial opportunities
- creating awareness of social injustices against children
- empowering family
We do this in collaboration with other like-minded agencies.
What we offer
To achieve our purpose we offer:
Drop-in Services
- A safe sanctuary from the horrors of the street
- Basic physical needs of food and clothing
- Counselling
Remedial Services
- A chance to be reunited with family
- Opportunity for children to return to school
- An all round development programme
- Emergency short-term night accommodation
Family Support System
This service is for the families of those children already on the street as well as for families of those at risk.
Target Group
Socially displaced children up to 17 years of age.
Our Belief
At Credo each child is treated as an unique person and every effort is made to try to meet his/her particular individual needs.
“In all matters related to the children the child’s best interest is a primary consideration”
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Goals
- To work towards re-instatement, social conformity and productive citizenship
- To re-create the family circle where possible
- To facilitate transition from street to Credo to home/school
- To offer a safe haven which provides love, care, attention and security as well as an all-round development programme
- To empower family and to ensure full parental guidance and responsibility
- To create awareness of the reality of socially displaced children and injustices against children
When/where you can find us
Our programmes operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Our location is:
Credo Drop-In and Developmental Centre,
19 Nelson Street, Port of Spain
Trinidad Tel: (868) 627-4360