the project will provide food and clothing to 88 young homeless orphans in Kenya. these are children aged from one month to 13 years old whose parents died and foster families displaced from work and rental homes due to Covid19.
many young orphans had been integrated into foster families and their lives normalized. this has been changed as these families have either lost the bread winners or jobs or homes following the covid19 pandemic. these families are therefore no-longer able to carter for their own members let alone the adopted orphans. the crisis facing these young children is therefore that of lack of proper shelter, clothing and most urgently food.
the project is a mitigative measure to allow the children survive through this emergency shock without severe malnutrition and neglect. as the foster families try to regain gainful employment and reorganize their livelihoods and as child headed households are linked to permanent residential support programs this project develops resilience and coping.
this is an emergency aid plan to avert a serious crisis on an already critical issue of orphan-hood and vulnerable children in Kenya. it allows for restructuring of reestablishment of family links with the orphaned children through foster plan. the long term impact is stabilized orphans support network and integrated support.
