A few organizations are doing what they can to assist children who survive on the streets. Non-government organizations such as Casa Alianza - Covenant House provide a number of services to street children. The first step is outreach. Representatives from Casa Alianza venture out to the streets to provide basic health care, education, and counseling. The children are then encouraged to leave the streets for the protection of the shelters. Once in the shelter, the children receive clothing, food, medical treatment, counseling, education, vocational training, and a warm bed to sleep in. After the children increase their self-confidence and become optimistic about their futures, they transfer to the transition homes. In the transition home, the young children enroll in public school and the adolescents receive vocational training and job offers. Finally, the children move into group homes. Here specially chosen counselors provide the love and support typical of a family environment. The children learn to form familial bonds while they complete their education and pursue job opportunities. When the children complete their education or reach the age of 18, they leave the home with the skills necessary to survive as self-sufficient adults. Besides the reintegration program, Casa Alianza also provides legal aid and offers shelters for street girls with babies. Casa Alianza is not the only organization that helps street children in Guatemala. Unfortunately the others are much smaller groups that don't have the same funding and support (Tierney 1997). Employees of these organizations are constantly at risk for harassment by those who don't believe that help is what these children need. Many people prefer to lock street children up in government run facilities that treat children as inmates, and continue the abuse.