If our commitment is that every child grow up in a safe and loving family, how do we address that so many children are living in orphanages that are unregistered and operating outside of the public eye? It’s challenging work to map, find and even collaborate with such institutions, but we’ve got the right guides to learn from. Brandon is joined today by Obed Masese and Meredith Caleb of Victory Child Empowerment to learn what is causing children in Kenya to go into orphanages of all types and what their team is doing to map unregistered orphanages with a broader care reform approach.
Conversation Notes
- How Obed’s family and village raised him and recognizing this used to be the norm
- Has the Kenyan Child Act of 2022 successfully been implemented?
- The differences between national policies and county implementation
- Paper orphans and paper orphanages
- The challenges of working with and among unregistered orphanages
- Care reform that promotes the development and mapping of new community services
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