Sing For The Streets Rescues Needy Kids

Sing for the Streets (SFTS) is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that has pledged to assist some selected street children to further their education or fulfill an ambition they have, especially in music.

According to the NGO, plans are far advanced to organize musical concerts and talent hunt shows in some selected communities to raise funds to assist some selected school children.

The NGO, which was established by Wahab Shaibu, is dedicated to the cause of empowering street children to believe in their God-given abilities, and to sensitize the public about the needs of these children.

27-year-old Wahab Shaibu, who hails from Adidome in the Volta Region and is a business man who deals in clothing, hinted that although he had the opportunity to develop his musical career, he decided to use his position to help under-privileged children to fulfill their dreams.

“I hate to see children go through difficulties,”he said.

According to Shaibu, over 50 needy children in Accra New Town, Maamobi and Nima have been put into various primary schools under the SFTS programme.

The NGO, he noted, has received financial support from a number of international organizations which recognized his efforts to assist needy children.

In 2008, Wahab Shaibu represented Ghana in Liberia during a Street Child Conference and he was also invited to a consultative roundtable meeting in Sierra Leone in 2007, to find ways of helping children and the youth whose limbs were amputated during the war in that country.

Shaibu said though the NGO faces financial and logistical challenges, he is hopeful of expanding its scope nationwide and also engaging the services of great musicians in the country.