Durban - South Africa - City Hall

The Street Child World Cup was organized as a football and arts event with teams of street children from 8 countries coming to Durban to play football and make art together. They were hosted by Umthombo, the organization that supports street children in Durban.

The exhibition, until July 2010 will be in Durban Art Gallery. On the opening night projections of the City Hall and government municipality buildings called, in English and Zulu, for the UN declaration's rights of the child - including street children - to be upheld.

"I am proud that the first ever Street Child World Cup will take place in South Africa - and I urge all governments to guarantee the rights of this most marginalised group of their citizens to lives in which their promise is fulfilled" - Archbishop Desmond Tutu