Thanks to funding from Scott Dunn and space and skills from Let Us Create, this year we were able to set up a fantastic sustainable early years provision for scavenger children from age 0-6 years old. The Early years provision is divided into three spaces: a creche for babies, a nursery for 3-6 yr olds and a sleep room. The majority of the children from the dump are of nursery age, and they attend the nursery with other scavenger children LUC cares for from the beach and streets. The older children from the dump outreach join the classes in the main centre and next we will be starting a Mum's project. But everyone of any age loves trips outside and the nursery children are no exception!

Our in-country partner project is the fantastic Let Us Create which provides care to some of the most vulnerable scavenger children from the streets and beaches of Sihanoukville Cambodia. Collaborating with Let Us Create and thanks to a generous donation from Solgar, providing vitamins and Optibac, who provided probiotics we were able to set up a Breakfast Club to provide the children the vitamins and supplements they are desperate for.

SSP and ODA collaborated on a big uniform drive to start the new term and new year. ODA provided new school uniforms for all the children attending the local free schools in rural Siem Reap as well as the children attending the ODA centre and SSP matched them with shoes. Volunteer Paula Harper was there to size, buy and fit over 300 children with new shoes. To find out more about this project check out Paula's story on Amy's blog.

SSP partnered with Love Light Romania who works on numerous projects with some of the poorest, most vulnerable children in Romania, some who live in the railway, some who are ferrel and some who scavenge for survival, they also run a project for children suffering with HIV. Thanks to all the amazing SSP supporters, who generously donated shoes and clothes, we were able to send 19 big boixes of aid to Romania in time for Love Light Romania to distribute to all the children in time for Christmas. Photographer: Richard Feaver

SSP Volunteer and early years nursery nurse, Paula Harper, fitted out four nurseries run by ODA with new equipment and structured routines for the children and staff to follow.

The London Celebrity Shoe Auction event saw the screening of our latest film- Next Steps, a photography exhibition and lots of funds raised for children on rubbish dumps. A huge thank you to Wayne Moser the photographer who captured the evening in these photos.

When volunteer, Jen, visited the various sites for future projects, she was so concerned at the lack of hygiene and school supplies that she delivered aid, whilst she was researching including food, clothes, shoes and hygiene products. SSP plans to do a larger distribution project using Jen's findings. Photographer: Tom Evangelidis

Volunteer Jen Goodall went to India to research future sites where SSP could deliver projects. She visited the slum village of Varanasi and Ghazipur landfill site outside Deli and this is what she found. Photographer: Tom Evangelidis

In April 2012 we delivered two distribution projects the first of clothes the second of shoes to over 126 children at the Tibar dump. Photographer: Tom Evangelidis

We visited the Tibar dump several times before delivering two distribution projects. we found varying numbers of scavengers ranging from as few as 3 to as many as 100. We also found numerous huts and structures which the scavengers had built to escape the sun. Several of these were inhabited. Photographers: Tom Evangelidis and Nicholas Molyneaux

Though what we found at Siem Reap Dump was unpleasant, what was unusual about this dump was the excellent facility, within walking distance to the dump which provides schooling, food, water, a creche and medical centre. The dump dwellers tend not to tell people about this facility but they are being helped and the children well cared for, the aid is well managed and we would recommend that anyone visiting Siem Reap donates to this organisation. Photographers: Amy Hanson, Hannah Hughes and Alex Smith

Small Steps Project visits Anlong Pi, and the Vocational Centre http://friends-international.org/wherewework/cambodia.asp We did not deliver a project to this dump because of the amazing work and centre run by Friends International, who even haver a wellington boot swap. This time instead of shoes, we provided a school bus to drive the older children from the dump to the training centre so that they could find alternative employment to scavenging. The younger children attend the Anlong Pi day centre. Photographers: Amy Hanson, Hannah Hughes and Alex Smith

In March 2012 we returned to the dump community to who we delivered a project to in 2010. Unfortunately the dump had moved locations, making it even more inaccessible than it once was. The dump is now out of walking distance to the nearest shelter and the nearest school. Photographers: Amy Hanson, Hannah Hughes and Alex Smith

In 2012 the our team revisited the Sihanoukville Dump where we had delivered a distribution project in 2010. Since then the dump has moved locations. Sareka was formerly the shelter closest to the dump. Some children were still attending. When we arrived we gave it a good clean up and kitted it out with new things, shoes, clothes, uniform and food. We are currently working on providing a new centre for the Sihanoukville dump children, in walking distance to the new dump location. Photographers: Amy Hanson, Hannah Hughes and Alex Smith

These photos are taken at the House of Family http://www.dvojfarebnysvet.sk/ and Cambodian Chindren's Paining Project http://www.letuscreatecambodia.org/ Where Small Steps Project delivered collaborative distributions of shoes, clothes, food and aid. Photographers: Amy Hanson, Hannah Hughes and Alex Smith

These photos are from the project's first trip to the Siem Reap dump, which has ben open since 2009. SSp will be returning to this site to assist further and organise sustainable solutions for the children in these images. Photographer: Chris Cook

We held our live London Celebrity Shoe Auction at the Royal Society of Medicine. Auctioning shoes from Kate Moss, Joanna Lumley, Liam Gallagher John Le Carre and more. The auction was hosted by Henry Kelly. The documentary, Small Steps:Nicaragua was premiered and an an exhibition of the project's photos was displayed and auctioned. Photographer: Luke Beresford

A collection of photographs from La Chureca Dump in Managua, Nicaragua. Photographer: Lucas Orme

A collection of photos showing life in and around La Chureca rubbish dump in Managua, Nicaragua. The dump is incredibly hostile and is undergoing regeneration, so much of it has been flattened. Photographer: Lucas Orme

A documentation of the distribution projects on La Joya rubbish dump, Granada, Nicaragua, where the Small Steps Project delivered: food, school supplies, school shoes, socks, clothes, toys and hygiene kits to hundreds of children and families living there. We hope by supplying these things children will be more able to attend school, breaking the cycle of dump living. Photographer: Lucas Orme

A collection of photos showing life in and around La Joya rubbish dump in Granada, Nicaragua. Photographer: Lucas Orme

A collection of photos depicting life on the dump in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Photographer: Simon Lohmeyer

A record of the distribution of food, school supplies, shoes, socks, cloths, toys, and hygiene kits to the people of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Photographer: Simon Lohmeyer

A collection of photos documentation our return to Stung Meanchey in 2010. Photographer: Simon Lohmeyer

A series of pictures detailing our distribution of food, school supplies, shoes, socks, cloths, toys, hygiene kits to the people of Stung Meanchey. Photographer: Tom Rowsell

Photos from Cambodia Project 2008 courtesy of Oliver Martin

Small Steps Project screening event at Hampstead Film Society and Camp Bestival. photographer: Lucas Orme