This paper, which was presented at a workshop organized by the Network for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children, discusses the experience of Jerusalem Association Children’s Homes (JACH) on de-institutionalization. This paper also discusses the process of reunification and reintegration through various strategies and activities designed and implemented by JACH.
Having accumulated experience and expertise, JACH has gradually decreased the number of children in the institutions and has made a strategic shift to community-based childcare projects. JACH has initiated such projects in Bahir Dar, Debre Berhan, Dire Dawa and is at last preparation is under way to start in Debre Zeit town.
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