SCU's purpose is to see all children safe, in school and learning - even, and especially, in low-resource environments and emergencies.

SCU works with a network of 95+ local organisations for lasting impact in 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

We build a global platform for street children, so that they can demand the protection, support, and opportunities every child deserves.

Using cricket as a platform for positive change, the Street Child Cricket World Cup will take place in Chennai on September.

The ICC Cricket World Cup starts 3 weeks later in India - our event will feed the appetite of global media for stories about cricket in India, and then will use the media coverage as a platform to campaign for better treatment of street children globally.

Success is measured by changes to the way street children are treated. These have included:

· As a result of the success of the Pakistan team in 2014, its government passed a resolution requiring every province to develop a new strategy to help the 1.5m street children in the country

· Three street child projects received multi-year funding worth £100,000 each from Comic Relief as a result of being introduced through the SCWC in Brazil

· A street child project in Burundi, the poorest country in the world, has received over £0.6m of funding from new supporters who they connected with through a Street Child World Cup.

24 teams of street-conected children from across the globe will join us in Chennai where they will participate on a mixed gender cricket tournament, an arts festival and very importantly a congress on children's rights.

I am a trustee of SCU and will work in Chennai as a volunteer in the congress programme.

Will you sponsor me to help street children?

SCU raises money to stage the event.

They invite street child projects who choose the children – in this case 7 Indian projects and 15 projects from other countries.

Half of your donation will help projects from Africa who are struggling to raise enough money to get their children to India.

The other half will go to help a wonderful street child project in Chennai called Karunalaya which transforms the lives of 300 street children every year by paying for school fees & uniforms, and if there is room, looking after them in their girls & boys shelters. There are around 3 million street children in India (estimates vary).