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600 children gain access to treatment for infectious diseases in Senegal

This Giving Tuesday, we join forces to ensure access to essential healthcare. Your support helps improve the lives of hundreds of children.

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Published: 16 Nov 2025

Thousands of talibé children and teens survive each day on the streets of Saint Louis (Senegal).

They are sent by their families from villages or neighboring countries in the hope that they will receive an education. However, many end up neglected, begging, and are exploited, subjected violence, vulnerable to diseases and malnutrition.

Fundación Asha-Kiran, together with the Association Maison des Talibés, has launched the project “From the Street to the Classroom”, whose goal is to restore these children’s most basic right: protection.

We are creating a school / day care center in Daroum neighborhood that will cater to over 600 children through:

  • basic literacy classes (French, English, Math, and Wolof)
    • psychosocial support
    • daily meals
    • and —most urgently— ongoing medical care

Skin diseases like scabies, infected wounds, and malnutrition are daily challenges. Without treatment, they can become serious cases.

That is why this Giving Tuesday we are launching the following challenge:

€2,885 are needed to guarantee essential medication and treatments in the coming months.

With your support we will be able to provide:

  • a doctor’s appointment
    • medication for scabies
    • wound disinfection and treatment
    • malnutrition assessment
    • medicated soap and basic hygiene supplies
    • a clean set of clothes

Every contribution, big or small, gets turned into health, protection, and dignity for 600 children.

Why does this challenge matter?

  • Because for a child living on the street, staying healthy means surviving.
    • Because a €5 treatment can prevent life-threatening infections.
    • Because infectious diseases stigmatize and isolate children.
    • Because an open wound is a doorway to other illnesses —and one that heals in time can prevent lifelong consequences.
    • Because health opens the door to education… and education opens the door to future opportunities.

Every day, the day care center is the difference between wandering the streets and the possibility of a new beginning.

About the project “From the Street to the Classroom”

The center operates with a local team of teachers, medical staff, and community educators specially trained to support street children. Additionally:

  • we hold hygiene and child-rights workshops
    • Children’s Committees are created to encourage participation and self-expression
    • local leaders are engaged in order to transform the conditions that perpetuate exclusion from within

The project integrates gender perspective, child protection, and environmental sustainability.

Join. Heal. Protect. Transform.

Your donation may be the gesture that allows a child to smile again, to learn, to play, and to feel safe.

Donate. Share. Be part of the beginning of our day care center in Senegal.

Because this Giving Tuesday… health is a right.

Learn more about our project here.

Fundación Asha-Kiran, founded in 2006, has almost two decades of experience promoting the well-being, inclusion, and protection of vulnerable children and youngsters in India, Spain, and, more recently, Senegal. Since its inception, the organization has focused on education, protection, community support, and access to real opportunities that allow each individual to develop their life project with self-respect.

In India, Asha-Kiran has promoted pioneering programs for migrant children and extremely impoverished communities, by developing Day Care Centers, safe educational spaces, and health and nutrition programs for thousands of children. This journey has led to the “Young Achievers” program, which continues to support higher education and technical training for young people who grew up in our Centers, thus consolidating a long-term transformative model. In recent years, Asha-Kiran has supported thousands of children and families with help of a specialized local technical team that guarantees quality, continuity, and solid community roots.

In 2025, Asha-Kiran extended its mission to Spain with the creation of Proyecto Vínculos, a social inclusion initiative launched in Malaga for young migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and youngsters out of institutional care. This program has grown rapidly thanks to an extensive network of volunteers and partnerships with leading social organizations, offering Spanish classes by levels, digital literacy, social and employment guidance, community activities, and an innovative Mentors Program. The facility, provided by volunteers, has become a place for meeting, learning, and mutual aid that fosters the creation of real support networks.

This international expansion is now complemented by the new “From the Street to the Classroom” project in Senegal, which focuses on protecting and providing access to fundamental rights to street children. Once the Day Care Center is completed, Asha-Kiran will offer medical care, educational support, nourishment, and social support, replicating the lessons learned over nearly twenty years of work in India.

The combination of international experience, adaptation to new contexts, and the ability to build stable community networks is the hallmark of Asha-Kiran. Our approach is based on human dignity, close support, and the creation of educational and employment opportunities that drive real and sustainable changes. In India, Spain, and Senegal, Fundación Asha-Kiran works alongside local communities, partner organizations, and volunteers to promote a more equitable, humane, and caring world, where every child and youngster can build a future for themselves.

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Jose Luis

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Diana

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Mariana

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María Jesús Modenes

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Christian

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Comments (7)

Rosa

257 days ago

Adelante

Diana

257 days ago

anaids@msn.com

Mariana

258 days ago

¡Ahi vamos!

María Jesús Modenes

259 days ago

Esperando que tengáis mucho éxito en este proyecto tan importante,un abrazo

Christian

269 days ago

Que vaya genial vuestro proyecto!

Falak

272 days ago

A por ello!

PALOMA

273 days ago

a por ello!!!!!

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