Child in Family Focus – Kenya works to reform the child care system in Kenya to ensure all children grow up in safe families by advocating for family-based alternative care and assisting long term residential care programs to undergo deinstitutionalisation.
Where they operate
Headquarters Location
Nairobi
Kenya
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
Sensitization and Awareness Campaign
There are a myriad of myths surrounding Alternative Family Care which need debunking through public sensitization. Child in Family Focus – Kenya carries out public sensitization with the aim of creating clarity on all matters Alternative Care as well as the need to keep children in family settings.
Technical Support
Child in Family Focus – Kenya works in collaboration with stakeholders to reduce reliance on institutional care for vulnerable children. Moving forward the Care Reform agenda by leading a coherent practice in favor of alternative family experiences for children remains our core focus.
Second Chances
CFFK reaches out to youth or teens discontinued from sponsorship by children’s homes for various reasons amongst them incidences of truant and deviant behavior. These youngsters are left to their own devices, vulnerable to societal ills and in need of a boost to get their lives back on track. We are presently supporting four such youngsters with access to education, vocational training and mentoring and are awed at the transformation a second chance brings!
Organization Resources
If you’ve watched The Love You Give, you’ll recognise Peter Kamau and his gorgeous son Jedd, who featured in this docustory about orphanages.