Nigeria

​This video by Child's i Foundation in Uganda document's the journey of a little girl, Praise, from being abandoned to being placed into to a permanent family. The video shows the tracing process and temporary placement with a foster car

According to Europol, more than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving and registering in Europe over the past two years.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Five years ago, Child's i Foundation founder Lucy Buck set up a 25-bed 'transitional facility' to prove it was possible to place children in need of care into permanent families. Childs' i Foundation piloted an 'emergency care pilot' to see i

Using a practice approach focused on interactions between foreign volunteers and local staff, this study examined the impact of volunteer tourism on Zion Primary School and Tamale Children’s Home (an orphanage), both in Tamale, Ghana.

This tool was designed to help those seeking to assist Christian faith-based actors involved in long-term residential care programs make the transition from institutional to non-institutional (family and community-based) child welfare programs.

This article from the Los Angeles Times reports migrant children in the government's care were placed in U.S. homes and left vulnerable to human trafficking due to sometimes nonexistent screening by the Department of Health and Human Services. 

A recent U.S. bipartisan congressional investigation reported that migrant children in the government's care fell prey to human trafficking.

The UK Government announced that it would take in refugee children who have become separated from their families in Syria and other conflicts.

UNICEF Ghana is seeking to fill a position for a P3 Child Protection Specialist (Alternative Care).

The deadline for submitting applications is 28 January 2016.