Our Ewafe Project has a model of Rescue, Rehabilitate and Reintegrate with an underlying ethos of finding family based care for children. As soon as a child is referred to this project, our team of social workers begin searching for immediate and extended family members, and where possible, put in place reintegration plans to bring these children home. In cases where children are not able to be reunited with their own immediate or extended families, we place them with assessed and trained foster families.
Foster care is so important because it provides an option for children who can’t live with their biological relatives to be part of a family and experience familial love in their most crucial years of development.
Fostering is a relatively new concept in Uganda, and so our reintegrations have always been with family members or relatives. Last year Kids Club Kampala launched our foster care project so that children who are unable to live with biological relatives can still grow up within a solid, loving family unit. After extensive checks ,assessments and introductions, the child is placed with a trained foster carer, who we then follow up with regularly to ensure the placement is working both for the child and the carer. Our new foster care scheme has already shown many benefits for the children.
Foster parent inductions with Co Founder and Executive Director Sam Wambayo
Rowan*, a 16-year-old orphan, was admitted to the Ewafe home in 2020. During his time there he received daily education at the local school, hot nutritious meals, and lifelong skills like gardening, agriculture and cooking. He underwent rehabilitation and was fostered in 2023 by Aisha. We recently visited the family to check in on how Rowan was doing …
“I am very happy that Rowan joined our family, it has been more than a year now and Rowan has been a good child. He is respectful and fits in well with my other children. If there was a chance for adoption, I will be glad to have Rowan as my son forever.” - Aisha, Rowan's foster mother
Rowan with his foster mother, Aisha
“I am blessed with this family, my foster mother takes good care of me and supports me. There is peace and freedom here, I have been able to learn new skills like brick laying, motorcycling, and saving money among others.” - Rowan
You can find out more about our Ewafe Project here, or if you would like to support our work in Kampala you can sign up to make a regular gift here.
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