Justice and System Changes

Our Karundas Children’s Home provides residential care for up to 45 of the region’s most vulnerable children, as we work hard to reintegrate them back into their family or foster care. Most of them come to us having been abandoned or orphaned, with many being HIV-positive.

Our Centre provides residential care for up to 52 vulnerable boys, as we try to reintegrate them back into their own family, or in foster care. Most are HIV-positive and came to us orphaned and/or severely neglected, a number of them having been rescued from the streets.

Our Home serves up to 30 vulnerable children from the local community, many having been rescued from traumatic cult abuse or having been orphaned or abandoned. All have experienced trauma, so we work carefully with them as we aim to reintegrate them back into a safe family.

Mitaboni Children’s Home shelters up to 50 children from extremely difficult backgrounds, as we try to reintegrate them back into a family or into foster care. They come to us on the verge of starvation needing urgent medical care, having received no meaningful education.

Hall Mead is a highly recognised school serving 500 impoverished children who would otherwise be working in the local quarries. Many have lost at least one parent. 25% of the pupils are HIV positive. We provide an excellent education as well as holistic care through nutritional food, trauma counselling and family support.

Our team in Kenya have started ministering to vulnerable children living in the vast slums there, including Kibera. Working closely with their families and local schools, our aim is to empower them to break the poverty cycle and create a 'go to school' culture, crucially, providing trauma care and support for both child and parent.

We are passionate about keeping vulnerable children with their own family, or a fostered one. In Kenya, many of our children live with an impoverished single widowed mother or grandmother who just need a bit of help to support the child, which is what this programme is designed to do.

Through the provision of scholarships, this excellent programme enables 70 extremely vulnerable children in western Kenya to break the poverty cycle by helping fund support for their education. It also impacts their families and wider communities.

Being orphaned or from an impoverished background is difficult enough, but trying to get through university without any meaningful family support is nigh on impossible. This excellent programme provides mentorship and practical support for some of the brightest young adults who have been in our care.

In Zambia, when a mother is sentenced to prison and she has a child aged 4 or under, the child will often go with her. As conditions in Zambian prisons are notoriously bad, Kids Alive Zambia has launched a new programme to provide practical, spiritual and emotional support for both mother and child. Crucially, we are also working with the prison authorities to advocate for systems reform so that children are better cared for when behind bars.

Sadly child sexual abuse is endemic in Zambia with many men believing that they will be cured of HIV if they have sex with a child. With an average age of only 12, there is negligible support and care for the victims and painfully inadequate systems to pursue justice or to establish effective child protection laws and systems. Our pilot scheme is designed to address all of these, providing care for the victims, justice for them, and work with the authorities for reform.

This remarkable after school centre set in the slums of Lusaka, provides up to 25 of the area’s most vulnerable children with crucial education support, food, family support, life skills, Bible classes and more.

This wonderful school provides a great education to 525 of an impoverished region’s most vulnerable children, who would otherwise not have any education at all. We also provide food, family support, trauma informed care and life skills.

A magnificent school serving nearly 400 of the poorest children from the Jarabacoa region aged 4-13. They are four times more likely to graduate from high school than the average Dominican child and five times more likely to attend church! All thanks to a great education and the wonderful holistic care they are given.

Provides residential care for nearly 50 of the region's most vulnerable children, providing all round holistic care as we aim to reintegrate them back into families. The programme also supports 10 graduates as they transition to adult living.

A wonderful school serving nearly 300 impoverished and vulnerable children in the Jarabacoa region of Dominican. It has some excellent sporting facilities and recently became the first Kids Alive project to offer a year 11 syllabus, resulting in more of our graduating pupils getting into university.

A wonderful school serving nearly 200 pupils from the nearby impoverished community, as well as offering residential care to a further 40 who have been abandoned, orphaned, or where it is not safe for them to return home.

This wonderful primary school offers an excellent education for nearly 200 impoverished children from nearby communities. The Care centre is particularly strong at providing educational support for secondary school pupils. Both offer holistic care, including trauma informed care, food, family support and life skills.

Based in an impoverished part of Puerto Plata, this programme provides an excellent education to 220 of the community’s most impoverished and vulnerable children. It is especially strong at introducing children to IT and more recently has taken on a trained trauma informed counsellor to help the many children who have suffered trauma.

A wonderful primary school for about 200 of the region’s most impoverished and vulnerable children, with an after school sports programme serving 80 children. The school provides a range of holistic care, including free food, trauma informed care and counselling, basic medical care, and dental treatment.

A magnificent state-approved school serving 200 impoverished children in the middle eastern region of Dominican. The Monte Plata home cares for 40 abandoned and abused children as we try to reintegrate them back safely into their family or into foster care if this is not possible.

This remarkable programme cares for young girls who have been victims of the worst cases of sexual abuse and have been referred to us by the local courts. We provide love, support, trauma informed care, support if the girls are pregnant, as well as pursuing justice against the perpetrators.

This programme serves older sexually abused girls who have come out of our Oasis programme and need support to live independently. The project helps them find work or continue with their education, as well as supporting them with childcare if they have little ones.

Provides an excellent education to 200 impoverished and vulnerable children, as well as food, family support, trauma informed care and life skills. The school is also used to administer medical care to 1,200 of the poorest in the community.

This wonderful care centre is a base for our legal teams to pursue justice for perpetrators of child sexual abuse. It is also a hub for victim support, including trauma informed care and counselling, as well as various other resources for them.

A wonderful school serving 200 impoverished children from the slums of Cap Haitien. They are so poor, we also provide 3 meals a day (plus weekend food packages), as well as after school education support for those with no family to help them with their homework.

This residential facility serves up to 70 of the region’s most vulnerable children, who also attend our school. As well as having a great education, we also want them to be equipped socially and emotionally to overcome the many hardships they face and embrace the future with confidence.

Based in the beautiful but very needy town of Andahuaylas in the Andes, we provide educational support, trauma informed care, general life skills and a lot of love to some of the town’s most vulnerable children. We also provide residential support to 20 abandoned children.

A remarkable project supporting extremely vulnerable children and their families in a jungle community. Not just educational support, but also helping families break from negative values and cycles, as well as trauma informed care, food and livelihood support.

Provides a 2 year residential programme for 10 extremely vulnerable children, including the abandoned, neglected or abused, most of whom it is unsafe to return to their home. We provide trauma informed care and counselling and aim to reintegrate the child back into a safe family.

A wonderful residential programme that provides all round care to some of the area’s abandoned and neglected children, as we seek to reintegrate them back into a safe family. It has also started ministering to vulnerable teenage mums, many of whom have been victims of sexual assault.

A day centre that provides specialist catch up education to vulnerable and impoverished Syrian refugee children aged 6-13, most of whom have NEVER received an education. Plus food, life skills, trauma informed care, family support, Bible classes, arts and sports. The kids love coming along!

The "Lighthouse Project’ is specifically designed to serve the mums and older sisters of the children who come to our school at our ‘Dar el Awlad’ complex near Beirut. The project provides fellowship groups, literacy classes, psycho social support, away days, counselling, parental advice and more.

This wonderful Christian school provides an education for 130 of Beirut’s most vulnerable and impoverished Syrian refugee children, including food, family support, trauma informed care, life skills and more. Many of the kids are years behind in their education having fled the war in Syria.

Cares for up to 32 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugee and Lebanese children, who have either been abandoned or have lost their parents as they fled from the war. The children are certainly well cared for – including trauma informed care - and all attend the Dar el Awlad school.

A day centre in the south of Lebanon serving 25 primary school aged children and their families, typically from marginalised and impoverished backgrounds, including gypsies, Bedouins and refugees. It also provides vocational skills to older girls.