Around 60% of children placed in institutions in Uganda have living relatives. We make it our job to try and trace the children’s families and resettle them safely back into their families. In fact around 54% of children admitted to Malaika are reintegrated back into their families.
If we are unable to find their families our aim is to find them new homes. We are delighted to share the story of a couple of children we have successfully placed into families:
All our Social Workers are trained in best practice when it comes to assessing and placing children and regularly supervised. Read about a typical day in a life of our social work department.
Our Social Work Department
Child’s i Foundation has set up a monthly Adoption Panel chaired by the Ministry in charge of Children’s Affairs – the first of it’s kind in Uganda. The panel’s purpose is to independently approve the families our team assess and match children to families.
We need your help this Christmas to help us ‘make families, not orphans’. Please buy your loved ones the gift of helping our team to trace relatives, a week’s phone credit to contact families, cost of printing posters to find new families, the cost of an over night stay for a social worker or a DNA test to prove paternity on our Christmas Baby Shower!
