Life for children in the Republic of the Congo should be better than for other children on the African continent; there are high literacy levels and longer periods of required education. The number of street children in the Republic of Congo has increased from the civil war and the political instability thereafter.

The presence of street children is a particular problem in Brazzaville, where there are an estimated two thousand children sleeping rough, to Point-Noire as well as other urban areas. The situation in Brazzaville is intensified by its close proximity to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo from where many have fled across the river in search of safety.

Whilst not as acute in some other Africa countries out of the Democratic Republic of Congo's child population of 1,716,000, an estimated 69,00 have been orphaned by AIDS with a further 6,600 children under the age of 15yrs infected themselves. At the present time there aren't any specific opportunities to sponsor a child in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) however there are some charities who work with communities in the Republic of Congo.