In Addis Ababa, street kids, particularly young children, have recently become more prevalent. Young children flee rural hardship and, frequently, family dissolution by emigrating to the city. In many cases poverty, in combination with the economic crisis, natural disasters, the civil war, or family problems are the factors that have driven the children to the streets. 

Simple Acts of Kindness (SAK) has been working to support and empower street children with income generating activities and education so that they can become economically independent and self sufficient, thereby protecting them from being vulnerable and rescuing them from a life of living on the street. 

Another part of the program is to reconnect children with their family. Children often flee from their family because of extreme poverty and the hope for a better life in the city, but after a while they long to be reunited with their family. Simple Acts of Kindness wants to support the children who desire to go back to their rural communities to be with their family again.