Child’s i Foundation provided models of best practice in family-based ‘alternatives’ to orphanages. To date, the project has achieved:

• Transforming our 25-bed facility (Malaika Babies Home) to an 8-bed emergency centre.
• Setting up the Uganda’s first ‘Emergency Foster Care pilot’
• Placing a social worker in a district to run a long-term community foster care pilot.
• Supporting the Government to run the domestic adoption programme and placing 22 children into new adoptive families.
• Recruiting and assessing over 20 Ugandan families who have been approved to adopt and waiting for a baby to become available to be adopted.
• Proving that with good social work is was possible to trace and reunify children back into extended families.
• Running the Ugandans Adopt campaign on behalf of the Government of Uganda.
• Working with 18 orphanages in Kampala, Jinja & Wakiso to improve their social work to safely transition children into families. The training included a 12-day work shop, shadowing at Child’s i Foundation centre of excellence and mentoring to ensure social workers receive ongoing supervision.