Organizations Working on Children's Care

This page offers a Directory of Organizations working on children’s care issues around the world, at a local, national, regional, and/or global level. The Directory is provided to encourage information sharing and communication between actors working in this sector.

Please note that the inclusion or exclusion of organizations in this Directory does not necessarily entail any judgement or endorsement on the part of BCN or its advisory group on the quality of their programs or services. In line with BCN's Mission, criteria for adding an organization to the Directory include evidence of relevant work in the areas of family strengthening, prevention of separation, alternative care, reintegration and transition from care, care reform, and other relevant areas. We are continuing to expand our directory and welcome suggestions of additional organizations to highlight.

Note: Choosing 'Global' from the drop-down menu below will produce a list of organizations that work at the global level (not a list of all organizations).

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JUCONI

JUCONI Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was founded in the city of Puebla in 1989 through the efforts of Sarah Thomas de Benítez, Joanna Wright de Serra and Gabriel Benítez. Together they joined efforts concentrated toward a single commitment: to make JUCONI an organization that would attend children in street situations in a professional way. JUCONI works in Mexico to tackle the social exclusion of children and families from poor and violent homes.

Kaeme

After reading a story in the New York Times Magazine about children being sold into slavery in Ghana, West Africa, John Stevens and Marci Kirk Stevens felt that they needed to do something to help. Their original plan was to start an orphanage in Ghana but after visiting many orphanages in Ghana they felt an orphanage may not be the best option to care for orphaned and abandoned children.They sought advice from national and global experts, did extensive research into best practices, and determined that children should be raised in a loving family.

Keeping Children Safe

Keeping Children Safe is a network of organisations working together to ensure children globally are safeguarded and protected from all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation. They advocate for the universal adoption and monitoring of international standards on safeguarding, build the capacity of organisations to safeguard children and work to advance a global movement of organisations committed to ensure that their staff, operations and programmes do no harm to children.

Kenya Children of Hope

Kenya Children of Hope (also known as Tumaini Kwa Watoto) was founded in UK in 1996 by Heddwyn & Lydiah Williams and started operating in Kenya in 1999 to address the plight of orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya. Kenya Children of Hope's vision is to see every child in Africa restored into a transformed family impacting their community, generation and beyond.

Kenya Society of Care Leavers

Kenya Society of Careleavers (KESCA) formerly known as Kenya Network of Care Leavers ( KNCL), is an organization registered as a society in Kenya by and for adults (18 + years) who spent all or part of their childhood in children homes, orphanages, and or rehabilitation centers. Its vision is to see empowered Care leavers lead a meaningful life and actively participate in the promotion of the rights of children without parental care.

Kenyans to Kenyans Peace Initiative (KKPI) Adoption Society

The Kenyans to Kenyans Peace Initiative is a non-governmental organization that was registered in 2006 and thereafter in 2007 registered as an adoption society. It was founded with a purpose of improving the welfare of orphaned, abandoned, vulnerable and destitute children through alleviation of their status and facilitating their integral development.

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Key Assets

Key Assets – The Children’s Services provider, part of the founder led Core Assets Group, is an international group of companies delivering flexible children and family social services solutions.They are a social enterprise working in Europe, North America and Australasia, and they offer a range of innovative, client centred services to government and non-government partners.

Keystone Human Services International

Keystone Human Services International (KHSI) promotes strong, culturally relevant community-based human service systems and equal rights for children, adults, and families throughout the world so that all people can fill culturally valued roles and have equal access to all society has to offer.

Kids Alive International

Kids Alive International is a Christian U.S.-based organization that works to support orphaned and vulnerable children in 11 countries around the world. They work to empower families and communities by developing partnerships and sharing the faith, knowledge, and infrastructure that creates self-sustaining legacies of transformation.

Kids Club Kampala

Kids Club Kampala is a community-led organization seeking to empower vulnerable children and their families and reduce poverty in Kampala, Uganda. Kids Club Kampala offers various programs catering to the needs and suggestions of the communities they work in, focusing on children and teens, women, and their families. The Ewafe Project, specifically, offers emergency care to children who have been abandoned and focuses on rehabilitation, reintegration with their families, or finding permanent foster families for them.