Rwanda's Orphanage Closure: A 12-Year Journey in Transforming Child Care

Rwanda's orphanage closure: A 12-year journey in transforming child care

Twelve years ago, Rwanda embarked on a plan to close all orphanages and reintegrate children into family-based care. Currently, only three of the original 33 orphanages remain, a...

Children’s Life after the Orphanage

The issue of children in alternative care and their lives after leaving institutional settings remains largely ignored in Pakistan Amir Murtaza In Pakistan, the journey to adulthood is filled with challenges for most young people, but for those who have grown up in alternative care settings, the path is often steeper and lonelier. Children raised in institutional care, commonly known as orphanages or “Yateem Khanas”, are among the most vulnerabl…