Quality Alternative Care

The problem: Not all children can be cared for by their parents

Some children leave their homes because of abuse, exploitation or parental death, while others hope to find a better life in the city to study or work. Unfortunately many of these children end up in conditions worse than those they left behind. Some wind up in large-scale institutional care, which can be neglectful, abusive and damaging. Others live in forms of alternative care that are often short-term and poorly regulated.

Our Goal: Ensuring a range of high-quality, appropriate alternative care choices for children

Children deserve the best care and stability possible to be happy and feel cared for. If their families can’t care for them, the alternative options have to be of high quality. Children’s own needs and preferences have to be taken into consideration. As large-scale institutional care doesn’t offer children quality care, we must work to end it. Alternative care should be temporary where possible and must be properly regulated with the care and protection of children as the highest priority.

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Speaking out for children’s rights

At this year’s United Nations Day of General Discussion in September, we’re pushing for better support for children without parental care.
Children’s creativity goes global

Our virtual ‘Life During COVID-19’ exhibition is live. It brings together visual art and the written word, with contributions from 101 children from 15 countries.
My Life NIKO

Niko is a young person from Albania. He lives in a centre for unaccompanied child migrants in Rome, run by our Italian alliance members, Programma integra. Read his interview.
Fideicomisario con experiencia en: trabajo con movimientos de base y / o en el uso de herramientas digitales para lograr cambios

Si le apasiona utilizar sus habilidades digitales y de campañas para mejorar la vida de los niños, lo estamos buscando para unirse a nuestra Junta directiva.

Our Approach - Innovative Model

We work on a different premise. Our decision making is based on what knowledge is valuable, what knowledge needs to be disseminated and how that knowledge should be disseminated to achieve wider change.
Our Approach - Research

Our research is based on our local and national knowledge. We use it to form key policy recommendations and inform our advocacy work. We develop and implement local solutions to ensure vulnerable children are able to grow up in the caring families they need.
Our Approach - Advocacy

We influence national, regional and global decision-makers to implement positive change to child protection policies and services, with a specific focus on children being cared for in a safe family environment. We use our common voices, based on our own diverse contexts and experiences, to reach a common goal.
Better decision making
Supporting children living independently
Safe and caring

Virtual children’s art gallery

101 children from 15 countries have contributed visual art and written work, shedding light on emotional impacts and other challenges caused by the pandemic.
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How we work

Family for Every Child’s model is unique. Coming together as a unified network of local organisations working on children’s care and protection, we can achieve so much more than we could individually.
Undugu Society of Kenya

Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an independent national non-profit NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya. USK works to improve the care of children and youth living and working on the streets in Nairobi and beyond.
Our Strategy

Our ambitious strategy underscores and further enhances our common vision of a world where every child can grow up in a permanent, safe and caring family, supported by temporary, quality alternative care where needed.
ChildLinK

ChildLinK gives orphans and vulnerable children who are separated or at risk of being separated from their families or communities a safe and secure future. ChildLinK’s vision is a Guyanese society where every child has the right to grow up in a safe and secure family and community protected from abuse, exploitation and violence.
"Children are isolating alone after their parents have died" – India's Covid crisis

India's Covid crisis is devastating lives. Here's what we're doing and how you can help.
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Guidelines on Children’s Reintegration

The Guidelines on Children’s Reintegration are intended to help governments, donors, NGOs, faith-based organisations and practitioners to pursue reintegration as the primary response in cases of separated children.