The Outreach Programme for Street Children

I have started a documentary project with one of the local charities (The Outreach Programme) in Cape Town, which aims at getting street children off the streets and into a shelter with basic food supplies and education. Yesterday was my first day going around with two social workers… One thing that struck me immediately was how much they cared about their work and about helping these children, about giving them a better future. They truly believe in what they are doing… This was pretty inspiring to me…

Obviously it will take a while before people get used to my camera, and me… So this is only the very, very start…




SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. February 2008. A social worker is looking for information on street children from the locals in Brackenfell, one of the Northern suburbs of Cape Town. Copyright: Uwe Schober/rupert beagle photography.


SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. February 2008. A twelve-year-old boy, living on the streets in one of Cape Town’s suburbs, under the influence of glue sniffing. Copyright: Uwe Schober/rupert beagle photography.


SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. February 2008. A social worker approaches street children who are under the influence of glue sniffing in Brackenfell, Northern Cape Town. Copyright: Uwe Schober/rupert beagle photography.


SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. February 2008. An erstwhile street boy, now in his shared room in a shelter in Cape Town’s largest township Khayelitsha. Copyright: Uwe Schober/rupert beagle photography.


SOUTH AFRICA. Cape Town. February 2008. A boy who was living on the streets and is now in one of the shelter homes in Cape Town’s largest township Khayelitsha, watches his fellow getting a haircut. Copyright: Uwe Schober/rupert beagle photography.