Annual Report MobileSchool.org 2021

ANNUAL
REPORT
2021

For any corrigenda found subsequent to printing, please visit our website at www.mobileschool.org/our-impact
© MobileSchool.org August 2022
FRONT COVER: Children during a mobile school session in Guadalajara with StreetSmart Wheels partner Pastoral Social de Cristo Sacerdote (November 2021)
BACK COVER: Street educators during a mobile school session in Port-au-Prince with StreetSmart Wheels partner Benefiet Haïti. (September 2021)

FOREWORD
In 2020, we suddenly had to reinvent ourselves in the new reality of absolute lockdowns and travel bans. 2021 became the year of deep
uncertainty. What is possible and what is not, … where and when? Slowly some markets picked up again. Countries and sectors cautiously
reopened. We carefully made plans to start up new mobile schools and roll out training programs for StreetwiZe customers. Until a new
COVID variant and wave resulted in postponing and replanning yet again. Luckily, some projects landed anyhow. It supported the team in
their commitment as their flexibility was rewarded.
2021 was also a year were the time freed up by cancelled projects was used for research & development. StreetSmart continued to develop
new digital tools such as StreetSmart Play, StreetSmart Impact and StreetSmart Learn, that we offer alongside our mobile schools for the
work with vulnerable kids.
StreetwiZe worked on a completely new offer on ‘purpose & performance’ that should be launched early 2022.
Taking care of our positive mindset, in addition to agility, resilience and creativity, was essential in 2021. Only profound naivety can lead
you to believe that these skills will not be important in the next coming years.
The status of the planet’s biodiversity, climate, poverty, migration and polarisation, … it is a chain of challenges that makes our future
increasingly uncertain.
The only way to avert more crisis and uncertainty is by tackling systemic errors in the way we organise society. The world urgently needs
more regenerative and sustainable models.
We at MobileSchool.org promise to keep on engaging in the movement that is designing new sustainable models for the future.
Arnoud Raskin
Director MobileSchool.org
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Children during a mobile school session in Antwerp - a pilot project with StreetSmart Wheels partner City Pirates.
Want to know more about their new mobile school? Check out p. 40!

GLOSSARY
1 ABOUT US
4
2 REALISATIONS
7
3 STREETWIZE CLIENTS 2021
60
4 STREETSMART WHEELS PARTNERSHIPS 2021 62
5 THANK YOU
64
6 FINANCIAL KEY FIGURES
67
7 LET’S GET SOCIAL
69
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ABOUT US
One organisation, two brands
MobileSchool.org is a hybrid organisation that uses its experience with complex and competitive street communities
to increase the sustainable development of youth and business communities. With game-changing educational
tools for youth workers and high-impact learning products for businesses, we strive to create a 360° impact
on society and vulnerable young people worldwide.
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StreetSmart develops game-changing tools for youth workers to enable them to unlock
the potential of young people worldwide. With our integrated on- and offline offer, we
invest in an opportunity-oriented methodology to maximise personal development of
youngsters growing up without a safe and caretaking environment.
WWW.STREET-SMART.BE
StreetwiZe aspires to a world where every talent can flourish. That’s what gets us
going each day! StreetwiZe helps companies and organisations to develop the right
skills, mindset and culture to make purpose a driving force for the sustainable growth of
employees, teams and organisations. The profits we make are invested in developing the
talents of street children via the Mobile School.org
WWW.STREETWIZE.BE

Two hybrid brands, one purpose, one mission and one set of values
OUR PURPOSE
WE ASPIRE TO A WORLD WHERE EVERY TALENT CAN FLOURISH.
OUR MISSION
MOBILE SCHOOL.ORG UNDERTAKES ACTIONS, STARTING FROM THE STRENGTHS OF STREET-CONNECTED CHILDREN, TO IMPROVE THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETY.
ACTIONS
In all our initiatives we want to at least inspire people,
but strive to activate and even engage people.
We work on the development of competences as
a means and opportunity to increase sustainable
development.
STRENGTHS OF STREET-CONNECTED CHILDREN
We believe in the potential of each child and strive
to develop their strengths and talents through
social entrepreneurship.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In everything we do, we facilitate the (self)-
discovery and strengthening of identity,
aspirations and talents, and make a difference based on
common values
OUR VALUES
CONNECTING
CHALLENGER
PASSION
POSITIVE
FOCUS
PLAYFUL
AUTHENTICITY
We believe that everyone can
strengthen each other from a
mutual empathic connection,
regardless of the mutual
distance​.
We challenge ourselves and
others to do better.
We go for it with heart and soul.
We are convinced that you can
find and tackle opportunities in
every situation.
We use a playful approach as a
crucial lever for well-being and
growth.
We take pride in acting from
self-knowledge and
self-acceptance.
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StreetwiZe trainer Eric in action during a workshop for
client BOSS Paints. Want to know more? Check out p. 14!

REALISATIONS 2021
A year of agility & resilience
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, not only the 2020 strategy but also the 2021 strategy got shaken up again.
Planned projects got cancelled or postponed yet again and carefully some new ones were launched. Roles and responsabilities shifted requiring people to be agile.
Despite those challenging circumstances and by focusing on the opportunities rather than on the problems we managed to deliver a series of innovative projects.
In this annual report, we will highlight some of our 2021 realisations.
With the recovery of the Learning and Development market, StreetwiZe increased its revenue by 150% and serviced 90 clients and 10432 trainees.
Our social venture StreetSmart was only able to conduct 7 training visits in 5 countries this year, as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
Meanwhile, the team also continued to expand the online offer to disseminate the StreetSmart tools. In 2021, 51 online training sessions were given to a total of 454
youth workers.
Our volunteers organised two campaigns this year: #MobileSchoolPeptalks and #FeestMee. Unfortunately, #DuwMee had to be postponed once again, due to the pandemic.
The volunteers also helped redesign our educational materials on health and sexuality.
Want to know more? Then read on and find out all there is to know about the projects we realised in 2021.
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StreetSmart Impact • VVSG Trajectory
01/09/2020 • 31/12/2021
Wim Depickere
Rob Sweldens
Joke Verreth
Sander Degeling
Flemish youth work
organisations
Flanders / Belgium
2021
In collaboration with VVSG, the Association of
Flemish Cities and Municipalities, we started
up the implementation of StreetSmart Impact
in all Flemish central cities in September 2020.
The collaboration consisted of 4 components:
• development of the StreetSmart Impact
tool, in line with the needs of Flemish
youth workers,
• training programme for all organisations
and 350 end users in 2020,
• licenses for all users in 2020 and 2021,
• support and further development based
on the feedback of all users in 2021.
In total, StreetSmart Impact was tested by 36
youth work organisations in 11 of the 13 Flemish
central cities: Aalst, Antwerp, Bruges, Genk,
Ghent, Hasselt, Kortrijk, Leuven, Mechelen,
Oostende and Turnhout. More than 300 youth
workers used StreetSmart Impact and registered
over 90 0000 contacts.
All organisations were given a demo and workshops,
to give insights into the model behind
StreetSmart Impact, to set up their organisation
on the platform and to actively test out the
app and the web platform together.
Offering continuous qualitative support is
important when implementing new technology.
That is why we regularly set up calls with the
organisations using the app and were always
available if additional support was needed.
We also developed standardised support documents:
two manuals and an extensive FAQ page.
In addition, we organised two webinars: one webinar
on StreetSmart Impact reporting and one
webinar on the I am StreetSmart app, in both
Dutch and French.
At the end of the year, we set up a final call with
each organisation, to gather their feedback on
StreetSmart Impact and to evaluate the use of
the app within their organisation. This valuable
feedback has allowed us to tailor our support to
the needs of youth workers even better and to
align the future developments of the app to the
wishes and needs of all youth workers.
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IMPACT
StreetSmart Impact tested out by 36 Flemish youth work organisations
+/- 900 000 contacts with children registered with StreetSmart Impact
+/- 30 workshops given
2 webinars organised on reporting & I am StreetSmart
Valuable feedback gathered
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Accenture • Leadership Fundamentals Programme
01/11/2020 • 28/02/2022
Davy Caelen
Accenture Netherlands
Online
2021
Accenture has been a client of StreetwiZe in
Belgium for several years. Thanks to the positive
reviews of our approach from the Belgian
department, StreetwiZe got in touch with
Accenture Netherlands department in 2020.
Accenture is one of the world’s leading consulting
companies, and recently recognized as the
only consulting company in the top 20 global
technology companies. For their experienced
consultants/beginner managers, there was a
demand for a holistic multi-day training programme.
StreetwiZe created a dynamic programme
consisting of 4 workshops and 2 group coaching
sessions. Different topics were covered,
including: “I as a leader”, “Leaders and style”,
“Leaders in conversation” and “Leaders in conflict”.
StreetwiZe organized highly interactive
webinars. That concluded in a practice session
with an experienced actor.
Accenture Netherlands truly appreciated how
our trainer, Davy, handled the virtual interaction
by reacting ad rem to everything that
happened in the group. They also found the
self-reflection moments during the workshops
very interesting.
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leadership essentials
BLOCK 1 BLOCK 2 BLOCK 3 BLOCK 5
I AS A LEADER LEADERS & STYLE LEADERS IN
CONVERSATION
LEADERS IN
PRACTICE
PITFALLS & OPPORTUNITIES
IMPACT
LIMITING & EMPOWERING BELIEFS
SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP:
THEORY & PRACTISE
INTERVISION (1h)
APPLY ON THE JOB
ROSE OF LEARY
BLOCK 4
LEADERS & CONFLICT
SIMULATIONS WITH
ACTOR
INTERVISION (1h)
APPLY ON THE JOB
PREP. (1h)
Personal development in reflection
Peer to peer learning and coaching
SMART GOALS
Practical application of theoretical models
Application of group coaching techniques
PREP. (1h)
PREP. (1h)
FEED BACK
TECHNIQUES
1/2DAY 1/2DAY 1/2DAY 1/2DAY
week 1 week 2-5 week 6 week 7- ...
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StreetSmart Learn
01/09/2020 • 15/04/2022
Lies De Vocht
Rob Sweldens
Joke Verreth
Pam Francken (intern)
Feyza Ercos (intern)
Erasmus+
Leuven/ Belgium
2021
This project started in September 2020. At
that point we started research for StreetSmart
Learn, a new online learning platform for
youth workers. The purpose of this platform is
to provide youth workers with training on nonformal
education, to increase their theoretical
and practical knowledge and strengthen their
skills. In this way, we aim to support youth
workers in setting up the right processes
for their target groups.
Together with the StreetSmart Wheels partners
PRAKSIS (Greece) and Salvati Copiii (Romania)
we aim to guarantee the youth workers a
sustainable platform for training and inspiration
in the future. Both organisations were
included in previous Eramus+ projects.
PRAKSIS was a partner in the development
of StreetSmart Impact and Salvati Copiii partnered
in the development of StreetSmart Play.
After this initial phase of research, we created
some pilot trainings based on our research.
Three focus groups gave feedback to this
pilot training. Their feedback was taken into
account when we started the development of
all the training programmes. The training programmes
are divided into micromodules.
StreetSmart Learn deliberately focusses on a
microlearning strategy. All our programmes
consist of short learning bites to trigger interest
and to make it possible for youth workers to learn
at their own pace, whenever and wherever they
want. Moreover, learners who complete an entire
programme, receive a free-of-charge certificate.
Next to this, StreetSmart Learn enhances the
knowledge and competences of youth workers.
We offer a set of key topics youth work professionals
need in their day-to-day activities, with a
strong focus on non-formal education and personal
development, like ‘Play-based learning’,
‘Counselling skills’ or ‘The importance of selfesteem’.
All trainings are available in Dutch,
French, Spanish and English.
Mid 2022, we will be able to finally present the
platform to the field of youth work in Belgium,
Greece and Romania.
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IMPACT
17 training programmes already available
Multilanguage: Dutch, English, French and Spanish
Mobile-friendly
Interactive, hands-on content
Strengthening youth work skills
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Rabobank Asia • A virtual Storytelling tour
01/01/2021 • 31/12/2021
Bram Doolaege
Rabobank Asia
Management (480 p.)
Online (Hong Kong SAR)
2021
StreetwiZe has been able to call itself
Rabobank’s storytelling partner for years. Hundreds
of Rabobank employees have already
been immersed in StreetwiZe storytelling
workshops.
And not only the hands-on sessions are appreciated.
From its hybrid story, StreetwiZe also
links with the bank’s mission to become more
sustainable. Originally, the StreetwiZe team
was to travel to Asia to deliver Storytelling
workshops. After all, the cultural and professional
uniqueness of the region requires a specific
approach.
Rabobank has been in Hong Kong SAR since
1990 offering a full range of wholesale banking
services to their Food and Agribusiness clients.
Rabobank Asia provides sector expertise, strategic
counsel and tailored financial solutions.
They focus on large multinationals, local and
regional companies across the entire food value
chain. More than 480 employees are working
in the wide region, stretching from India to
China. It goes without saying that this specific
setting requires a tailor-made approach.
Because COVID-19 hindered travel, StreetwiZe
has designed a custom online workshop. With
an eye for diversity, both the content and the
approach were adapted. The feedback from the
Rabobank participants is therefore unanimously
positive. And at the time of writing, the number
of participants is rising rapidly.
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IMPACT
Content and approach adapted to diverse cultural backgrounds
Interactive digital learning allows sharing of stories
Networking opportunities are integrated in the workshop
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StreetSmart Impact • Wheels trajectory
01/01/2021 • 31/12/2021
Joke Verreth
Sander Degeling
StreetSmart Wheels partners
Worldwide
2021
All StreetSmart Wheels partners can freely
make use of all StreetSmart tools, including
our case management and impact measurement
tool, StreetSmart Impact. To implement
this new registration tool in our StreetSmart
Wheels partners network, we organised various
online demos. Partners interested in using
StreetSmart Impact then received a three-hour
personalised onboarding workshop. During
the onboarding workshop, we discuss and
set up the best possible structure for their
StreetSmart Impact organisation on the platform.
The app and web platform are also actively
tested out, so that, after the workshop, the
outreach teams can immediately start using
StreetSmart Impact during their interventions.
We gave demos and workshops to 19
StreetSmart Wheels partners in 13 countries
on 4 continents. 8 of those 19 partners already
actively used StreetSmart Impact to register
the impact during their outreach interventions
with the mobile school in 2021. In total, these
organisations registered more than 8600 contacts
with children during more than 600 interventions.
Some partner organisations were not able to
start up their outreach interventions last year
due to the pandemic and were, consequently,
not able to register anything. Some organisations
experienced technical difficulties when
using the app and in other organisations
the team changed, so the knowledge about
StreetSmart Impact was lost. In these organisations,
we will start the StreetSmart Impact implementation
process back up.
In the long run, our objective is that all
StreetSmart Wheels partners will actively use
StreetSmart Impact to register the quantitative
and qualitative impact of their outreach sessions.
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IMPACT
Demos and workshops followed by 19 Wheels partners
StreetSmart Impact actively used by 8 Wheels partners
8663 contacts with children registered during 629 interventions
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Volunteer work
01/01/2021 • 31/12/2021
MobileSchool.org crew
MobileSchool.org volunteers
Online / at the office
2021
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At MobileSchool.org we have the best volunteers
in the world! Without them, we would
not be able to do what we do.
Due to COVID, it was not possible to organise
many offline activities, so we made sure
we offered online moments to connect. We
organised an online MobileSchool Update &
Café on 12 March and an online demo of our
StreetSmart Impact app, which allowed us to
connect with 17 volunteers.
Usually, we organise 2 volunteer weekends
per year. The objective of these weekends is
two- fold: informing our volunteers about the
new projects within the organisation and connecting
during fun games and activities. Due
to COVID-19, the weekend planned in March
had to be cancelled, but we were finally able
to meet up live with our volunteers in October.
23 volunteers took part in the various activities
offered during the weekend, such as: a
StreetSmart Impact workshop, a keynote given
by managing director Arnoud Raskin, and of
course many fun energizers and informal connection
moments.
Another offline connecting opportunity we
launched this year was the volunteer “connection
chain”. One volunteer randomly draws the
name of another volunteer and contacts him/
her to set up a one-on-one meeting: going for
a walk, a drink,…The sole objective of the meeting
is to get to know each other better. The volunteers
can make use of a box of interesting
connection questions we drew up. After the meeting,
the volunteer that was contacted draws a
name of another volunteer and sets up a meeting
with him/her, and so on, creating a connection
chain. So far, 9 volunteers have taken part and
we will keep making the chain longer!
To keep our volunteers updated throughout the
year, we also sent out 4 newsletters. For International
Volunteer Day on 5/12, a video was recorded
at the mobile school in Querétaro to thank our
volunteers for all the wonderful work they do for
us.
People interested in MobileSchool.org can take
part in an info evening, during which they get to
know all there is to know about our organisation
and can “meet” the mobile school. One of the
five info evenings we organised this year was
organised at the office, the others were organised
online. In total, 38 new people have been
informed about MobileSchool.org.

IMPACT
On-and offline connection with volunteers
Volunteers updated about all MobileSchool.org projects
38 new people informed about MobileSchool.org
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Bain & Company • Business case L&D-market
05/01/2021 • 21/01/2021
Kim Swyngedouw
Wim Depickere
Marc Wouters
Bain & Company
Online
2021
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StreetwiZe was choosen to be part of a pro
bono-project of Bain & Company in the first
quarter of 2021. In that project, a dedicated
team of 3 Bain-employees would work out a
business case in which it would explore the
L&D-market in Belgium in general and the position
and value of StreetwiZe in that L&D-market.
The final goal of the case was to give guidance
to StreetwiZe on ‘where to play’ and ‘how
to win’ in the next 1 to 3 years, given the ambition
of MobileSchool.org to become 100% self
sufficent by the end of 2023.
In an intense 3 week collaboration, a Bain
& Company team with Humbert della Faille,
Simon De Ferm and Alexandre Gueulette,
under the supervision of Olivier Gillerot,
Bain-partner and member of our Board, dug
its way through a pile of external and internal
data and information. Twice every week they
updated the StreetwiZe-team with their new
findings, checked interpretations and clarified
their next steps.
By the end of these 3 weeks, the Bain-team was
able to present a fully documented analysis
with insights from all angles in a fragmented
L&D-market. The team prioritized focuspoints
on industry, geography, offering, size of
customers, and added the importance of ‘purpose’
in both the StreetwiZe-way to go to the
market and in the selection of prospects.
All these insights enabled the SreetwiZe Salesteam
to leverage its efforts on prospection and
business development, to elaborate an effective
strategy on Customer Relationship Management,
and to determine the milestones on our
way to our ultimate goal of self sufficiency.
These 3 weeks avoided at least 3 months of
digging, exploring and studying for ourselves,
and will make a big difference in the next 3 years.

IMPACT
Clear selection of focuspoints on 6 critical elements
Clear insights on the current L&D market
Clear positioning of StreetwiZe in the L&D market
Headstart in business development
Leverage in Customer Relationship Management
Clear set of KPI’s and milestones
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New Educational Materials on Sexuality
01/03/2021 • 09/06/2021
Joke Verreth
Sander Degeling
Rob Sweldens
Gijs Vanhee
Volunteers
StreetSmart network
StreetSmart Play
2021
Talking about sexuality with children and
young people is crucial. Young people who
receive a qualitative sexual education make
more conscious decisions, are less at risk of
STDs and sexually transgressive behaviour and
are happier in their relationships. So, there’s
more than enough reasons to talk about sex!
That is why StreetSmart adapted and expanded
its offer of educational games about sexuality,
in order to better meet the needs of all youth
work organisations. Our goal is to make it easy
for youth workers to address the topic of sexuality
in a playful way with the children and
young people they work with, so they can make
conscious, healthy and respectful decisions.
Together with the volunteers of our educational
work group and graphical designer Gijs
Vanhee, we redesigned three of our existing
game boards on sexuality. In addition, three
new game boards and a card game were developed.
These newly (re)designed panels form
part of StreetSmart’s sexuality package, which
consists of different educational games and
energizers addressing the various subtopics
sexuality encompasses: body (development),
boundaries, relationships, gender and sexual
orientation, safe sex and sex & media.
All the newly designed panels can be found
on our StreetSmart Play platform, where youth
workers can freely access a wide variety of educational
activities they can conduct during their
non-formal educational sessions with their target
groups.
In order to facilitate the launch of the new sexuality
package, StreetSmart organised a webinar for
the StreetSmart network (all organisations using
one or more StreetSmart tools), so youth workers
worldwide were immediately updated about the
new activities and triggered to use them during
their youth work interventions.
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IMPACT
Redesign of 3 existing game boards
Developments of 3 new game boards & 1 card game
Package of 27 games total available on StreetSmart Play
1 webinar given to 8 street educators from 5 countries
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BOSS Paints • Colourful Street Skills
05/03/2021 • 10/05/2021
Eric Vanbiervliet
Marc Wouters
BOSS Paints
Belgium
2021
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BOSS paints develops, produces and sells
high-quality paint products. For professional
customers, but also, via the Colora shops, for
private individuals. Most of these shops are run
by independent entrepreneurs. They are supported
and guided by the Business Coaches
of BOSS Paints. Their most important task:
streamlining the interests of the shop owners
on the one hand and the internal departments
on the other. Not an obvious task, of course.
And so we at StreetwiZe were asked to develop
a trajectory for the team of Business Coaches
with the aim of strengthening their individual
and team leadership.
The StreetwiZe Story gave the participants
the broader framework for the various interventions
we were planning. Afterwards,
we worked for half a day on the Connect
technique and explored the why, what and
how of connecting with other people and
teams, even where there seem to be be big
differences.
In a second phase, the theme of ‘personal
leadership’ was the main focus. During the
workshop on Positive Focus, the participants
learned how their own perceptions, sometimes
negative, influence their behaviour. By means
of various reflections it became clear to what
extent you can increase your positive focus by
consciously shifting your gaze from the (naturally
so easily detected) problems in a certain situation
to the opportunities that the same situation
or context also offers.
Impact was the key word of the third phase.
To this end, we spent a full day working on
Cooperative Competition. After all, the street
teaches us that it is in the balance of cooperation
and standing up for one’s own interests that
people and teams achieve an optimal win-win.
The Business Coaches aligned about what they
want to go for together, what they want to stand
for and what they need from each other, from the
managers and from the other teams within the
organisation to achieve this. But also how they
can join forces in this ‘battle’.
In a final workshop, each Business Coach brought
together the essence of their learnings and ambitions
in a powerful personal story. For this
purpose, we introduced them to the technique
Storytelling, a very powerful tool to inspire people,
make them enthusiastic and get them moving,
even if your message or question is complex.

IMPACT
Developing personal leadership for greater impact
Aligning around team goals and approaches
Strengthening the mutual connection
Defining medium-term points of attention
Strengthening coaching and motivating capacities
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StreetSmart Impact • Developments
10/03/2021 • 18/06/2021
Wim Depickere
Halcyon Mobile
Belgium / Romania
2021
Based on the feedback of all StreetSmart
Impact users, new developments were made
and two new versions of StreetSmart Impact
were launched this year, in April and in June.
Thanks to these two new updates, the overall
structure of StreetSmart Impact is even more
user-friendly and customisable. StreetSmart
Impact reporting was improved by, i.a. adding
reporting filters and adding more data download
options. The participant profile was made
more user-friendly and the user flow in the app
was improved as well. In addition, even more
elements of StreetSmart Impact were made
customisable, so each organisation can fully
adapt the use of the app to their way of working.
A new series of developments will be launched
at the beginning of 2022, focused solely on
increasing the user-friendliness of both the app
and the web platform for all users. Software
developments are never finished, of course, so
we will continue gathering feedback from our
users to make sure StreetSmart Impact meets
their registration and impact measurement
needs.
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IMPACT
StreetSmart Impact made more user-friendly and customisable
Improved StreetSmart Impact reporting
Improved user flow in StreetSmart Impact app
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Multipharma • Taking the lead
01/04/2021 • 31/10/2021
Eric Vanbiervliet
Multipharma
online
2021
Multipharma is the largest Belgian pharmacy
network, with more than 250 pharmacies
across Belgium. Multipharma is a cooperative
company that focuses on accessibility and puts
the customer at the heart of everything they do.
Thanks to the large network of pharmacies, they
can share their knowledge to make their network
even stronger. As a result, the strength of
the whole is greater than that of the individual
parts combined.
Thanks to the pandemic that has plagued our
healthcare worldwide for the past two years
and the resulting rapidly changing innovations
within the sector, Multipharma was faced with
a challenge. They wanted to create a competitive
advantage over their competitors despite
the major changes in the industry. Therefore,
they wanted to focus on strengthening their
people managers. Points of attention that
StreetwiZe had to consider were maintaining
a broad view of the market, the ownership of
employees at all levels and the further development
of a feedback culture.
In the first phase StreetwiZe wanted to address
these concerns using 3 different street skills,
namely: Positive Focus, Resilience & Agility and
Cooperative Competition. Here we also used the
techniques Connect and Leading Change. In the
2 concluding intervision sessions we worked on
translating these tools to everyone’s professional
reality and on developing a personal leadership
story.
“Very good link to the story of the street
children, this puts things in perspective and
helps to gain insight into what really counts.”
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IMPACT
Taking more ownership and showing it off
Look beyond own organisation
Working on connections at the leadership level
Develop personal leadership
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H&M • Taking the lead of change
01/04/2021 • 30/09/2021
Bram Doolaege
Eric Vanbiervliet
Davy Caelen
Bart Vanbellinghen
H&M
Leuven / Brussels / online
Hennes & Mauritz Belgium contacted us in the
autumn of 2020. They wanted to offer the Function
Heads and the teams within H&M several
extra tools to stand upright in the constantly
changing context in which they must work
every day. For the Function Heads, the focus
will mainly be on going beyond their own expertise,
how to deal with teams, daring to take
decisions and giving feedback. For the teams,
the focus will mainly be on looking for synergies
and greater ownership of these profiles.
During this collaboration H&M wanted to have
a clear link with the values of their organisation:
entrepreneurial spirit, constant improvement,
cost conscious, we keep it simple, we are
one team, straightforward & open-minded and
we believe in people.
H&M is a Swedish fashion chain with more
than 5000 stores in over 70 countries. In
Belgium alone, there are around 70 H&M
stores.
StreetwiZe started from the street skill Cooperative
Competition to work on the role that the
Function Heads can and want to play in a constantly
changing context. With the street skills
Resilience & Agility and Positive Focus and with
the technique Storytelling we then brought
this to the level of a unique contribution and a
unique own story. Finally, the Function Heads
co-facilitated a day with all the teams around the
importance of common goals and of a careful selection
and follow-up, at team level, of the battles
that go with them.
“Good to take time to reflect as a group. Good
interaction and balance between theory and
work groups. Passionate trainer that kept a
good tempo during the day.”
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IMPACT
Building a stronger community
Develop personal leadership
Understanding and exploring the H&M culture
Arming against the rapidly changing environment
Getting leaders to reflect on their roles
Strengthen ties among executives
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International Day for Street Children
12/04/2021 • ...
Arnoud Raskin
Lies De Vocht
Volunteers
Awareness and fundraising
Flanders / Belgium
2021
On 12 April we celebrated again the International
Day for Street Children. This is the 11th
year that we have celebrated street children
worldwide on this date. The MobileSchool.org
volunteers normally organise a large event to
raise awareness for this day, but as the coronavirus
still formed part or our daily lifes,
gathering with lots of people was not aloud.
So the volunteers came up with a postcard campaign.
Postcards to give your friends, family,
colleagues… a peptalk. As the StreetSmart
youth workers daily give peptalks to the children
and youth they work with, it only seemed
approriate to make a connection with this context.
#MobileSchoolPeptalks is a package with six
motivational postcards. Each postcard includes
a QR code to unlock a video. In these videos,
some famous MobileSchool.org friends like
Wim Opbrouck, Tom Van Dyck, Linde Merckpoel,
Joke Emmers, Joris Hessels and Siska
Schoeters give you their best peptalk. The proceeds
of these postcards are invested in new
mobile school for street-connected children
worldwide.
This special day is not only celebrated by us, but
also by many organisations outside our network.
Mobile School is a member of the Consortium
for Street Children, a worldwide network of 90
organizations. The Consortium represents the
international interests and rights of street children.
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IMPACT
Over 300 packages were sold to our (in)direct network
6 Belgian celebrities partnered in this campaign
2 news media reached
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International StreetSmart Wheels Exchanges
19/05/2021 • 27/05/2021
Joke Verreth
Sander Degeling
StreetSmart Wheels partners
Online
2021
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More than a year into the pandemic, the street
workers of our local partners are still doing their
utmost to stay in close contact with their target
groups. After a successful virtual exchange last
year, the StreetSmart team organised a second
global online exchange in both English (for
our African, Asian and European StreetSmart
Wheels partners) and Spanish (for our Latin
American StreetSmart Wheels partners) to
allow partners to exchange tips and tricks on
how to conduct street interventions during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
In total, 12 organisations from 10 different
countries gathered online to share stories on
how the pandemic affects their work and to
exchange concrete materials, methodologies
and best practices.
While some of our partners in countries like
India, Sri Lanka and Bolivia are operating in
extremely difficult circumstances due to a recent
spike in infections, partners in other parts
of the world have seen some of the strictest
restrictions being lifted.
A vast majority of the partners, however, is
still not able to take their mobile school to
the streets. Partners who can conduct activities
with the mobile school – like the team of
Ladies Union of Drama in Greece - are limiting
the number of participants and are taking all the
necessary hygienic precautions to keep the staff,
the children and the communities safe during
their interventions.
Luckily, the creativity and determination of our
partners to stay connected with their target
groups is endless and they all came up with
innovative ways to keep supporting the kids:
from online classes, videos and the distribution
of educational modules to the development of
a comic book to inform the kids about the do’s
and don’ts during the pandemic. These new approaches
were enthusiastically shared among
the participants.
As countries worldwide are rolling out their vaccination
strategies, we are hopeful that more and
more StreetSmart Wheels partners will be able
to pull out their magic box again to restart their
non-formal educational activities with street-connected
youth in the coming months.

IMPACT
Exchange of experiences between StreetSmart Wheels partners
Strengthening of StreetSmart Wheels network
27 street educators reached from 12 org. in 10 countries
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Finalised redesign HEALTH materials
01/05/2021 • 31/12/2021
Educational volunteers
Sander Degeling
Rob Sweldens
Joke Verreth
Educational volunteers
Leuven / Belgium
2021
Since the start of the pandemic, the StreetSmart
team has invested a lot of time in redesigning
the educational materials used on the mobile
school. The past year and a half, a team of
educational volunteers focussed on the specific
redesign of the materials on health.
Many of these materials were developed
during the early days of the mobile school, and
the current pandemic also gave us an opportunity
to rethink and expand the educational
offer on the topic.
Earlier in the process, new panels on personal
hygiene, health care and pubery and sexuality
were already created. In May, a new project
with the educational volunteers focussed on
the last part of the health package: the panels
on drugs, first aid and seeking help.
After analyzing the strengths and weaknesses
of the existing panels, the volunteers came up
with some new game concepts to spice up the
materials.
After 5 online working sessions, these ideas
were then sent to our illustrator Gijs Vanhee,
who brought the ideas to life.
Today, all of the new materials are online available
on StreetSmart Play, and new StreetSmart
Wheels partners can now benefit from an entirely
new educational package on health.
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IMPACT
Completed redesign of educational package on health
Five new panels created in last phase
Total of 18 new health panels since 2019
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Exploration Mexico • Pastoral Social de Cristo Sacerdote
19/07/2021 • 21/07/2021
Arnoud Raskin
Jessika Martinez
Joke Verreth
Pastoral Social de Cristo
Sacerdote
Guadalajara / Mexico
2021
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Within the parish of Cristo Sacerdote, a group
of people was formed in 2014, wanting to
reach out to people in need within their community:
“Pastoral Social”. They started by
setting up aid programmes, to support local
projects financially and by donating food and
clothes: an organisation working with families
working on the streets, a local project working
with migrants, the canteen for children and
elderly people from the community living in
extreme poverty, … The team of Pastoral Social,
however, felt the need to do more than
just support projects financially and decided
to shift their focus to human development programmes
instead.
In 2018, the team paid a visit to StreetSmart
Wheels partner Banco de Alimentos in
Querétaro, where they saw the mobile school
in action. They were immediately convinced of
the added value of our tools for the human development
programmes they had in mind for
their community. After an online meeting, they
sent us their application in February 2019. In
June 2019, they already started up their own
outreach project, using tables, chairs, mobile
blackboards,…
Mobile School’s Managing Director, Arnoud
Raskin, visited the team in November 2019 and
joined them during an outreach session. He
saw a dedicated and motivated team and a local
project with a lot of potential, so we planned an
exploratory expedition in July 2021 to officially
prospect the organisation. Local master trainer
Jessika Martinez trained the team. Since she has
been the coordinator of the StreetSmart Wheels
project in Querétaro, Mexico since the start-up
in 2013, she had a lot of relevant experiences to
share with the local team.
After the exploratory expedition, some to do’s
remained for the local team: clearly defining the
roles and responsibilities of all team members,
drawing up a concrete planning for the mobile
school project, starting up interventions at a second
location, looking for younger volunteers to
enrich and diversify the team and arrange transportation
and storage for the StreetSmart Wheels
materials. If the team can make these necessary
preparations, it is very likely that a third Mexican
StreetSmart Wheels project will be launched in
the near future. To be continued!

IMPACT
Team of 18 educators trained on StreetSmart Wheels methodology
Potential for new mobile school in Mexico
Mexican network strengthened
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StreetSmart Wheels Pilot Project Belgium • City Pirates
01/08/2021 • 15/11/2021
Joke Verreth
City Pirates
Antwerp / Belgium
2021
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“Football the motor, social commitment the
fuel, diversity the strength”, that’s the catchphrase
of City Pirates. Through football, this
Belgian organisation wants to give youngsters
from Antwerp opportunities and teach them
new competences, to increase social cohesion.
Currently, there are more than 1100 youth
players from more than 80 different nationalities
at the club. It’s about much more than
football, though. The team of City Pirates also
offers homework support and organises home
visits and meetings with the children’s schools.
They are always looking for new ways and tools
to increase their impact even more.
One of the tools they believe can increase their
impact on the streets is the mobile school. In
2019, we therefore already organised a short
training for the local team and one pilot outreach
session with the mobile school at the
Luchtbal district, which showed great promise.
This year, the City of Antwerp approved and
supported a short mobile school pilot project,
so the team could organise outreach interventions
with the mobile school from September
till December. To prepare the team, we organised
a two-day workshop beforehand and accompanied
them on the streets during their
first two mobile school interventions in August.
Due to the bad weather during the summer
months and a lack of personnel to manage the
project, only 10 outreach interventions were organised.
The pilot project was ended earlier than
planned as well, in November.
The team does see the enormous potential of
the mobile school on the streets of Antwerp,
however, and therefore wants to start up a new
pilot project with the mobile school in April. If
they can find a good way to manage the mobile
school project and integrate it in the rest of their
offer, we believe it has a lot of potential.
Will there be a Belgian StreetSmart Wheels partner
in the future? We will keep you posted!

IMPACT
Basic training given to 13 educators
First Belgian mobile school pilot project organised
Belgian network strengthened
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Gijbels • Wellbeing
01/09/2021 • 30/09/2021
Eric Vanbiervliet
Davy Caelen
Sofie Vandenberghe
Gijbels Group
Oudsbergen / Belgium
2021
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Gijbels Group, active in construction and project
development, was one of the first companies
to believe in the added value of Street
Skills for its employees and its leadership.
Building on solid past collaborations, Gijbels
Group and Streetwize joined forces again in
2021.
Gijbels Group wanted to set up a support program
for the employees around the theme of
Wellbeing. More specifically for the 100 or so
white-collar employees who, because of the
corona measures, have very limited contact
with each other. As a result, the management
developed an extensive support program, with
a focus on both the mental and physical aspects
of well-being, which was rolled out over
a broad group of employees. The aim of the
collaboration between StreetwiZe and Gijbels
Group was to continue to stimulate and inspire
the employees, and to keep them connected
under the theme ‘Connected Thinkers’.
StreetwiZe kicked off with a workshop on resilience,
which we interpret as the ability to sustainably
deal with setbacks, negative reactions,
and failure, and to recover from them. Taking
inspiration from our work with street children,
the workshop was set up as an exploration of
everyone’s personal foundation of values, talents,
and aspirations.
“Strong how you are made to think concretely
about difficult topics such as talents, values
etc. Down-to-earth, no too big theories.”

IMPACT
Making employees more resilient
Reflect on their personal foundations and those of the organisation
Strengthening the organisation during a crisis
Define and name personal values
Discover and discuss personal talents
Take steps in defining a personal mission
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AG Insurance • IT Young Pros Programme
01/09/2021 • 31/12/2021
Bram Doolaege
Eric Vanbiervliet
AG Insurance
Brussels / Belgium
2021
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AG Insurance is a Belgian insurance company
that has been returning to StreetwiZe
annually since 2018. They offer both life
and non-life insurance and supplementary
pensions. With their more than 3 million
customers, AG Insurance is the largest insurance
company in Belgium.
Due to the global talent shortage, AG Insurance
wants to offer their Young Pros in IT opportunities
to develop further. They do this by building several
essential skills, as part of their onboarding
process. They want to do this in addition to a
series of knowledge training courses. During
StreetwiZe’s training courses, the emphasis is
specifically on developing the participants’ soft
skills.
Initially, we worked around the personal mission,
values, and talents of the employees. We
did this from 2 key street skills: Resilience &
Agility and Positive Focus. Subsequently, the
Young Pros were given the opportunity to build
on this foundation. Starting from a community,
the participants defined a few projects that
they consider meaningful for the organization.
After defining these projects, the participants
worked them out. By working out these projects,
they acquire the necessary insights into project
management and develop their skills around
pitching and storytelling.
We hope this collaboration can continue for
many years to come!
“The energy of the trainers, the very practical
approach, I learned things and I’ve been put
out of my comfort zone.”

IMPACT
Inspired participants
Learning about soft skills in a fun way
Stepping out of the comfort zone
Developing connection between Young Pros
Adding business value by working on projects and putting their soft
skills into practice
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Exploration Kenya • Inuka Network
06/09/2021 • 10/09/2021
Bram Van de Putte
Inuka Network Kenya
Eldoret / Kenya
2021
After an inactivity of almost 18 months, we
were finally able to send out one of our trainers
again to conduct a week-long prospection visit.
In the city of Eldoret in Kenya, trainer Bram Van
De Putte explored a potential partnership in
September with the recently established Inuka
Network.
While the pandemic situation remains instable
in large parts of the world, there is once again a
lot of activity within our partner network. More
and more organisations are currently applying
to become part of the global StreetSmart
Wheels network. The reason for this is simple:
an increased need on the street because
of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why we at
StreetSmart decided to focus on the opportunities
and to restart our international expeditions
if the pandemic situation and the local restrictions
in the destination country allow it.
After the prospection in Guadalajara in Mexico –
conducted by our local trainer Jessika Martinez
– the propective visit in Kenya was the first
international training after a long time of
inactivity. In Eldoret, the Inuka Network is eager
to launch a mobile school to interact with the
large street population in the city.
The network was established recently with the
support of the Belgian organisation Caprioolkinderen
vzw, led by Eddy de Nil. Caprioolkinderen
is also a long-term partner of Yenege
Tesfa - one of our Ethiopian partners – and therefore
the team is already well-informed about the
possibilities of the mobile school.
During the visit to Eldoret, it was crystal clear
there is a huge need on the streets for nonformal
educational street work. Moreover, the
city is located only 100km away from Kitale,
where our partner Child Rescue Kenya is working
since 2019 with the mobile school to boost
the self-esteem of street-connected youngsters.
Together with the team, our trainer Bram
assessed about 10 locations in and around
Eldoret which show great potential to become
future mobile school locations.
Both parties are even more enthusiastic after
the visit to take the next steps and to solve the
remaining challenges as soon as possible. If
all goes well, our new mobile school in Eldoret
could already be launched later this year.
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IMPACT
9 youth workers trained on StreetSmart Wheels methodology
Potential new StreetSmart Wheels partner for 2021
Strengthened network of organisations within Eldoret
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Start-up Haiti • Benefiet Haiti
20/09/2021 • 31/12/2021
Sander Degeling
Benefiet Haïti
Port-au-Prince / Haiti
2021
In December 2018, StreetSmart shipped a
brand new mobile school and educational
materials to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince
to launch the first Haitian mobile school in the
island nation.
Unfortunately, soon after the socio-economic
and political crisis on the island escalated
quickly. Currently, Haiti is undergoing one of
the most fraught periods of its recent history.
Insecurity has become rampant in Port-au-
Prince, as kidnappings and violence between
heavily armed gangs are once again on the rise
as the gangs have extended their control over
large parts of the city.
Amid this crisis, StreetSmart was not able to
properly start-up the project in Port-au-Prince.
However, the local team of street educators
continued to stay in contact and was determinated
to make use of the mobile school materials.
Last September, the team then decided - after
a couple of short online workshops - to take
the first steps with their school and to start the
interventions in some secured places.
Although the project is not running at full speed
yet, there is high hope that with some coaching
and support from a distance, the Haitian team
of partner Benefiet Haiti will slowly gain more
experience and will continue to expand their
positive impact on street-connected children in a
city where the needs on the street are incredibly
high at the moment.
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IMPACT
Short online training for team of 7 local street educators
First street interventions despite ongoing political instability
Regular coaching moments to improve the interventions
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#FeestMee
02/10/2021
Joke Verreth
Arnoud Raskin
Eva Vandeputte
Fundraising
Veltem-Beisem / Belgium
After the 2019 edition of #FeestMee (translates
as ‘Party along’), we were excited to organise a
second edition of this party. Due to COVID-19
and the restrictions on indoor events and parties,
we had to postpone this event.
But in October 2021, it was our time! We could
(legally) dance again and of course we didn’t
want to let this opportunity pass us by. We did
this second edition, in a COVID-safe way, again
at Bar Vital in Veltem-Beisem, which is an old
milk factory. The factory was transformed into
a cosy dance hall and was spacious enough
to bring out the best dance moves from 200
party-people dancing to a mix of live music
and DJ sets from Miss Charlie, Nadiem Shah
and Anda Ackx.
It was an evening of meeting and connecting
- an ideal way to bring our supporters
(back) together and expand further. We are
already looking forward to the next edition
of #FeestMee.
2021
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INFO
2OKT
TICKETS
#FEESTMEE
IMPACT
t.v.v.
Bringing our volunteers, friends and supporters back together
200 people attended
Fundraising for MobileSchool.org
BAR VITAL
VELTEM
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COVID SAFE EVENT

Exploration Tanzania • KISEDET
01/11/2021 • 05/11/2021
Sander Degeling
KISEDET
Dodoma / Tanzania
2021
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Slowly but surely, our StreetSmart Wheels
trainers were again able to explore new potential
partnerships in 2021 with local street work
organisations. In the first week of November,
we visited Kigwe Social Economic Development
and Training (KISEDET), an organisation
based in the Tanzanian capital Dodoma to
investigate if we could set up a long-term
partnership with them in the near future. The
organisation is well-connected to other partners
within the Tanzanian street work network,
so they already had a good insight in which
added value the mobile school materials could
offer to their organisation.
The prospection visit in Dodoma was already
on the agenda in March 2020. However, the
pandemic forced us to cancel the training last
minute. Since then, we kept in touch with the
team of KISEDET to find a right time for the
training, and finally, we were able to organise
the prospective visit in November.
During the exploratory visit, the team got
an in-depth introduction on all the different
StreetSmart products. Besides a couple of
workshops on street work, play and project
management, the team of KISEDET also showed
us a handful of potential locations where they
would like to work with the mobile school and
the educational materials. Immediately, it was
crystal clear that there is a large target group for
non-formal, creative outreach interventions in
the city. Furthermore, KISEDET also invited other
stakeholders from Safina Street Network,
Tumaini Foundation and the local police to make
sure different actors are up to date and aligned
about the main objectives of the mobile school.
In the coming months, both parties will still work
on a couple of to do’s in order to prepare the
arrival of a mobile school in the city of Dodoma.
Fingers crossed everything will go according to
plan, so we can start a new project here in 2022!

IMPACT
15 youth workers trained from 3 different organisations
Potential new StreetSmart Wheels partner for 2022
Strengthened Tanzanian network
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New mobile school Mexico • P. Soc. de Cristo Sacerdote
04/11/2021 • 12/11/2021
Jessika Martinez
Mariela Gil Ballejo
Joke Verreth
Pastoral Social de Cristo
Sacerdote
Guadalajara / Mexico
2021
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It’s official: as of November 2021, we have 3
Mexican StreetSmart Wheels partners, bringing
the total to 59!
After the successful exploration in July, the
local team immediately started working on
the remaining to do’s before the implementation.
They started up interventions at a second
outreach location, involved more volunteers,
bought a van to transport the mobile school,
set up a storage space, … They were cleary
very motivated to start up their very own
StreetSmart Wheels project.
In November, we therefore planned the implementation
training, led by local StreetSmart
Wheels master trainer Jessika Martinez. Since
she is the coordinator of the StreetSmart
Wheels project in Querétaro, Mexico, the local
team could exchange a lot of best practises
and experiences with her and the Mexican
StreetSmart Wheels network was instantly
strengthened. One of Jessika’s team members,
Mariela Gil Ballejo, is an expert in social circus.
She joined Jessika for one day to co-facilitate
the workshop on creative therapy.
In addition to the implementation workshops,
Jessika joined the team during three outreach
interventions.
Our brand new StreetSmart Wheels partner
works in the city of Guadalajara and more specifically
in the community of Cerro del Cuatro, which
is characteristed by poverty, family violence and
disintegration, drug and alcohol addiction,…
There are many migrants in Guadalajara as well,
since the city is one of the gateways for people
wanting to emigrate from Central America to the
United States, looking for a better future. Some
people decide to stay in Mexico and start up their
immigration proceedings there.
The team now organises interventions with
the mobile school at two locations. During the
implementation training, the local StreetSmart
Wheels project was officially inaugurated at both
locations with a ribbon cutting ceremony the
children enjoyed. The mobile school was warmly
welcomed in the community and the local project
is off to a great start! The team is already planning
on adding a third outreach location next
year. We will keep you posted!

IMPACT
10 street educators trained
Third Mexican StreetSmart Wheels project implemented
Mexican StreetSmart Wheels netwerk strengthened
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Follow-up Poland • Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
19/11/2021 • 21/11/2021
Robert Cieślar
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
Krakow / Poland
2021
The mobile school project in Krakow, Poland
was started up in 2008. The team organises
five street sessions per week in four different
sectors. In Krakow, low-income families (Polish
and Roma families) are housed in apartment
blocks built in the communist era, which are
referred to as “social ghettos”. Many families
struggle with drug and alcohol abuse and
unwanted pregnancies. The local StreetSmart
Wheels team works with the children living in
these “ghettos”.
Every year, the team organises a training for
their new volunteers. In the past, these trainings
were organised by the team itself. Since
2018, though, Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla has a
training budget. Each year, they now use that
budget to organise a StreetSmart Wheels training.
The three-day follow-up training was given
by local StreetSmart Wheels trainer Robert
Cieślar, the coordinator of the StreetSmart
Wheels project in Bytom, Poland, so the Polish
StreetSmart Wheels network was strengthened
during the training as well.
During the follow-up training, the new volunteers
participated in the general presentation
of the Mobile School vision and our StreetSmart
tools. They learned how to drive and maintain
the mobile school, played and invented games
with the educational materials and followed the
workshop on self-esteem. All new volunteers
were extremely motivated to start up the work
with the mobile school.
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IMPACT
11 new volunteers trained
Knowledge of educational materials & methodologies
Increased motivation to work with the mobile school
Polish network strengthened
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New mobile school Kenya • Inuka Network
23/11/2021 • 03/12/2021
Bram Van de Putte
Bilhah Wairimu
Sander Degeling
Inuka Network
Eldoret / Kenya
In September, our master trainer Bram Van de
Putte conducted a succesful prospective visit
with the Inuka Network in the Kenyan city of
Eldoret (see previous pages). Two and a half
months later, we were extremely excited to
launch the mobile school and the educational
materials during a two-week implementation
training with the new team of street educators.
The time in between the prospective visit and
the implementation was really short, because
an inactive school in Nairobi was transferred to
Eldoret to make sure the team could start the
work as soon as possible.
The newly established Inuka Network is a consortium
of different organisations joining forces
to better meet the needs of street-connected
children in this Kenyan city. With the support
of the Belgian organisation Caprioolkinderen
vzw, the network has high amibitions to support
the many street-connected young people
who are roaming the streets in the city.
From November 22 till December 3, our master
trainer Bram Van de Putte and co-facilitator
Bilhah Wairimu from our partner Child Rescue
Kenya in Kitale conducted a training with the
team to make sure they have all the expertise
they need to hit the streets. During the trainings,
the team took the mobile school to the different
organisations, and organised a street visit near
the California Barracks. The new mobile school
was warmly welcomed by both the street educators
and the children. After mobile schools in
Nairobi, Mombasa and Kitale, the mobile school
in Eldoret is the fourth mobile school rolling
around on Kenyan soil.
2021
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IMPACT
Team of 14 youth workers trained on StreetSmart Wheels
Strengthened connection between actors in the network
Involved co-facilitator from other partner Child Rescue Kenya
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STREETWIZE CLIENTS 2021
These clients bought workshops, experience-based training programmes, inspirational
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talks or other services at StreetwiZe:
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STREETSMART WHEELS PARTNERSHIPS
59 mobile schools in 30 countries
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OUR ACTIVE PARTNERS IN 2021*
LATIN AMERICA
AFRICA
Kenya Good Neighbors (Kenya, Nairobi) • since 2005
Virlanie Foundation Inc. (Philippines, Manila) • since 2006
Kivuko / Railway Children (Tanzania, Mwanza) • since 2011
LEEDO (Bangladesh, Dhaka) • since 2015
Yenege Tesfa (Ethiopia, Gondar) • since 2012
EkTara (India, Kolkata) • since 2017
Yenege Tesfa (Ethiopia, Debark) • since 2016
Child Action Lanka (Sri Lanka, Kandy) • since 2020
Mwema Children Centre (Tanzania, Karatu) • since 2018
AGOPODE (Togo, Lomé) • since 2019
GPAS (Poland, Warsaw) • since 2006
Inuka Network Kenya (Kenya, Eldoret) • since 2021
Salvati Copiii (Romania, Iasi) • since 2006
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla (Poland, Krakau) • since 2008
IPTK - Cerpi (Boliva, Sucre) • since 2005
ARSIS (Greece, Thessaloniki) • since 2009
Las Hormiguitas (Nicaragua, Matagalpa) • since 2008
Jugendamt Stadt Düsseldorf (Germany, Düsseldorf) • since 2009
Fe y Alegría (Ecuador, Ibarra) • since 2011
CME GPU Uno (Poland, Bytom) • since 2013
Alimentos para la Vida (Mexico, Querétaro) • since 2013
ARSIS (Greece, Athens) • since 2015
Asociación Niñas y Niños del Fortín (Nicaragua, León) • since 2014
Ladies Union of Drama (Greece, Drama) • since 2017
Diamanta & Los Cachorros (Peru, Ayacucho) • since 2016
Initiative for Social Change ARSIS (Albania, Tirana) • since 2019
Benefiet Haïti (Haiti, Port-au-Prince) • since XXXX
Pal. J. Matulaicio socialinis centras (Lithuania, Vilnius) • since 2019
Pastoral Social de Cristo Sacerdote (Mexico, Guadalajara) • since 2021
Pomocna Dłoń (Poland, Raciborz) • since 2020
City Pirates (Belgium, Antwerp) • since 2021
*Some partners stopped the StreetSmart Wheels project or are currently not working due to COVID-19, policital instability or other reasons.
ASIA
EUROPE
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions taken by governments worldwide, our local partners were forced to restructure their interventions. While the vast majority of partners was able
to stay in contact with their target groups, significantly less mobile school interventions were conducted this year as a result of lockdowns and social distancing measures. Some of our partners
were able to carefully restart their interventions in the second half of the year, but others are still waiting to get permission to take their mobile school out to the streets again.
“This pandemic was a really hard time for street educators like us. But one good thing it brings us, is that it gives us the space and time to re-evaluate our
programs. Everybody in the team joined the process and gave different ideas on the kind of beneficiaries we are going to work with in the future so we can
develop more life-changing activities for our future target groups.”
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SPECIAL THANKS TO
our co-creators
...to our donors, for their valuable gifts, big
or small, that allow us to support educational
projects working with street-connected
children and youth.
...to the children, schools and organisations
who raised funds for us and in doing so,
inspired a lot of other people.
...to the owners of our building for allowing
us to grow as an organisation.
...to our board of directors and investors
for their advice, trust and support every year.
...to our volunteers for their endless energy,
creativity, warm comforting hugs in hard
times and trust in the organisation.
...to our StreetwiZe clients for believing in
our approach.
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...to our partners PSSB, Limeparts-
Drooghmans, Ijzerwaar and DHL Global
Forwarding. The mobile school is produced
at Munsterbilzen Provincial Secondary
School (PSSB). Mobile School and PSSB
have made the clear and deliberate choice
to have the schools produced by Flemish
youth in a cross-border project that involves
aspects of social global education, technical
education and entrepreneurship.
DHL Global Forwarding has been a partner
and sponsor of Mobile School for more than
15 years. Over the years they have shipped
95% of all mobile schools.
De Zande
Gemeenschapsinstelling
Bijzondere Jeugdbijstand
...to the worldwide networks we are very
honoured to be part of.
...to community institution De Zande, Auxiliary
Prison Leuven & Rode Antraciet for
partnering with us in our experience-based
learning programmes.
HULPGEVANGENIS LEUVEN
...to the organisations who give us strategic,
legal and digital transformation support.
...to the Tomorrowland Foundation, Google.
org, the Forvia Foundation and Synergie for
the financial support.
...to the EU for the subsidies involving the
TECH4GOOD story.
With the support of the
Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union
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A street visit to explore potential locations for the mobile
school in Guadalajara, Mexico. Want to know more?
Check out p. 38

FINANCE
All StreetwiZe profits are invested in the StreetSmart projects for street children
€ 296.481,51
Private donations
€ 34.223,37
Campaigns
€ 39.307,60
Public investment funding
(Erasmus+)
€ 158.218,30
General
€10.047,65
Financial
€ 608.340,49
StreetwiZe
€ 15.766,22
Other
€ 1,34 million
€ 701.467,49
StreetwiZe clients
€ 288.276,11
StreetSmart Wheels
€ 1,31 million
€ 42.430,25
StreetSmart revenu
€ 210.000
Private investment
donation (Google.org)
INCOME
€ 246.229,98
StreetSmart Digital
COSTS
2021: 1.124.847 euro was invested to improve the sustainable development of individuals, organisations and society, starting from the strengths of street-connected children.
Independent non – executive directors are non remunerated and operate on a voluntary basis. Managing director, management and employees are remunerated based on the joint
committee grids of Belgian Social Cultural workers (PC 329.01).
STREETWIZE REVENUE
Of total revue, 3% is public funding and 97% is private funding.
StreetwiZe covers 53,5% of the total cost of the Mobile School vzw.
€369.571,- of the total cost of StreetwiZe is directly invested in personal, team and
organisation development programmes for the clients.
In 2021 StreetwiZe transferred 100% of its profits €93.127,- to StreetSmart.
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OUR IMPACT
It’s about that mission, the impact on vulnerable children and youth.
39.950
educational contacts with
street-connected children
832
people reached by
our awareness campaigns
10.432
StreetwiZe participants
2.579
visits on our educational content
platform StreetSmart Play
This was the last year we organised the Sidewalk Chalk Campaign in primary schools.
The campaign was stopped to focus on growing the impact of StreetSmart Wheels and the start-up of StreetSmart.
LEGEND
StreetwiZe impact
StreetSmart Wheels impact
StreetSmart Digital impact
MobileSchool.org impact
Our impact decreased in 2020 and 2021
due to COVID-19 restraints. StreetSmart
Wheels partners realised less activities
and contacts than the years before and
StreetwiZe could not deliver as much
in-classroom training.
The average quality of contacts of the
StreetSmart Wheels partners increased with
4% in comparison with 2014.
This calculation is based on an assessment of the
StreetSmart Wheels partners.
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