Thousands of children impacted by the Ebola crisis are still living in orphanages in Sierra Leone. Kidsave is seeking to help as many as we can. With time, money and attention most can be reunified with their extended family members; and those who cannot will be placed by the Kidsave team in foster or host families on their way to permanent families. While […]
CONTINUE READINGKidsave’s focus in Sierra Leone is twofold. Initially we seek to find biological or extended families of children who lost one or both parents to Ebola. If the child cannot be returned to those who knew and loved him or her before, they go into hosting. Bockarie lost both her parents when she was […]
CONTINUE READINGChildren returning home after two years wore sad faces as the memory of losing their parents to Ebola overwhelmed them. Yet aunts and grannies wept for joy as they welcomed the children home. Most believed the children were gone for good – never knowing they were only a few hours away. It’s a […]
CONTINUE READINGKidsave expands in Sierra Leone with the launch of a new program with local partner and implementer of Kidsave Family Visit Model, Foundation for Integrated Development Sierra Leone (FID/SL). On October 7, 2016, FID and Kidsave launched the program at the Pujehun District Local Council Hall. 35 stakeholders including local child protection agencies, traditional leaders, […]
CONTINUE READINGDue to the generosity of GlobalGiving and JourneyApps, a new set of smartphones equipped with our mobile app are on the way to Sierra Leone. The phones will be provided to our most recent program’s social workers to aid in tracking the permanency statuses, locations, and demographics of the Ebola orphans that we serve. […]
CONTINUE READINGIt is with great excitement that the Kidsave Sierra Leone Program reports the arrival and deployment of our newest and largest team member. While still lacking a proper nickname, the new team member is always ready to travel and geared for service. Weighing in at an impressive three tons and always willing to carry […]
CONTINUE READINGPresident Obama welcomed the leaders of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea to Washington, D.C. 0n 16th April. In his welcoming remarks he spoke directly about the children and orphans affected by the ongoing Ebola Crisis. “Under extraordinary circumstances, the people of these three countries have shown great courage and resolve, treating and taking care of […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Ebola Crisis has hit Kidsave. Children and host families have died. More than 140 children registered in the program have lost one or more parents to Ebola. And the families who are hosting children in the rural areas of Kenema and Bo where the virus is rampant have been especially hard hit. Quarantines, which […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Kidsave Sierra Leone Programme (KSLP) is Kidsave’s latest and most innovative project to give orphans permanent family care in Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world. Approximately 57% of the population lives on less than $1 a day. Due to the Ebola outbreak the numbers of children who have lost their families has skyrocketed throughout the country. Having worked together over the last five years to find orphans permanent, loving family care within their communities, the needs of these Ebola orphans and their adoptive and perspective families has never been as urgent as it is right now.
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CONTINUE READINGBy Sanya Younossi – Program Manager, Kidsave Africa Programs In 2014 the Ebola crisis ripped through Sierra Leone. The world responded, contained the virus and left, leaving thousands of children orphaned in Ebola Care Centers and orphanages. These children have been living without hope of ever seeing family again. Kidsave is working to help these […]
CONTINUE READINGby Emily Jaster | Via Loudon Times Mirror After growing up in a Colombian orphanage and spending the past three years in foster care, 11-year-old Sharon has come to Middleburg to spend four weeks with an American host family in hopes that she will find a permanent adoptive home. Sharon’s visit is part of the […]
CONTINUE READING“Social worker-sleuth” ought to be the job title of Kidsave’s team in Sierra Leone, working to reunite children orphaned by Ebola with family members. Take the case of Paul, a 11-year-old who has spent the last 2.5 years in an orphanage in Pujehun. Orphanage records offered a clue – the last known village of his […]
CONTINUE READINGMy name is Alix Halloran and I am GlobalGiving’s Field Traveler in West Africa. For the past three months, I have been traveling around West Africa, meeting with GlobalGiving‘s nonprofit partners. I was very excited to meet with the Kidsave International team in Sierra Leone a few weeks ago. I was moved by the […]
CONTINUE READINGWhile the most serious period of the Ebola Virus outbreak appears to have been contained, the devastating long-term social and economic effects are just beginning to surface. To support the Ebola-recovery phase, Kidsave- Sierra Leone is excited to announce a new partnership with The Federation for Integrated Development/Sierra Leone (FID). FID, a local organization […]
CONTINUE READING. Our Theory of Change Kidsave® gives pre-teens and teens who are living in orphanages, temporary foster homes and group homes – loving parents and lifelong mentors through family visit and super-mentoring programs. All of the children we serve have experienced the trauma of losing their parents. Many have been abused and neglected and have […]
CONTINUE READINGClick for original article on ‘Next Act for Women’ Finding Adoptive Families for Older Children: Terry’s Story A visit to a Russian orphanage to adopt her first child spurred Terry into action. With her friend Randi, she launched Kidsave, a nonprofit to help older, often forgotten orphans and foster children find families and mentors. […]
CONTINUE READINGAfter Mariama moved to Freetown, she continued to visit her friends and family living in the internally displaced persons camp in Bo where she had grown up. Originally established at the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war, the camp in Bo district had, over the years, developed into more of a permanent settlement than […]
CONTINUE READING“I do it because I want to help the children in my community,” answers Mabinty Kamara when asked why she took on the role of Kidsave program coordinator for her village of Sembehun. Sembehun, a village of roughly 3,000 people is located in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. As a Kidsave village coordinator, […]
CONTINUE READING“I want to be somebody in the future and see that justice is done,” says Bintu Sallah, age 16, when describing why she dreams of becoming a lawyer. Both she and her cousin Omar, age 13, lost their biological families to the recent Ebola epidemic. . After leaving their homes in Kaila district, the two […]
CONTINUE READINGBandu Kamarah sits on the porch of her modest mudbrick home in the Dogo Barracks area of Kenema. Her biological children have all grown and moved on, but Bandu (a local petty trader whose husband worked as a district forest officer and passed away ten years ago) has a full house once again. With the […]
CONTINUE READINGKenema, one of Kidsave’s areas of operation, was especially hard hit by the Ebola virus. A local chief, Christopher Mangua Sei, has taken in 9 orphaned children. He and his wife met four of his adopted children, Sallay (9), Fatmata (15), and brothers Kinny (8) and Dadhdy (14), at a local Kidsave event. All […]
CONTINUE READINGREAD FULL STORY ON THE CONNECTION WEBSITE Open Heart and Open Home by Hannah Griffith Kidsave, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding forever-homes for foster children and orphans in foreign countries, is bringing Maria from Colombia to Arlington for the summer. With the ability to sponsor a child, fund a scholarship, or be a host […]
CONTINUE READINGMassah is one of the children currently being hosted by a Kidsave-trained-family in Sierra Leone. Originally from a village in Bo district, Massah fled her village after both of her parents succumbed to the Ebola virus. Stigmatized and shunned by her community for being an Ebola survivor, she made her way to the district […]
CONTINUE READINGALL POSTS LATEST NEWS SUMMER MIRACLES WEEKEND MIRACLES INTERNATIONAL NEWS OUR FUNDRAISING SUCCESS STORIES KIDSAVE NEWS INTERNATIONAL Our international offices and time in Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Russia gives us a unique insight into these countries and their needs and progress finding older orphans permanent families. The Kidsave Family Visit Model is customized […]
CONTINUE READING“Born of a Hutu – Tutsi union, she symbolizes what the genocide attempted to destroy.” In that sentence, Kristoff Kohlhagen, Manager of Kidsave’s Africa Programs, is describing one-year-old Lilian whose mother, Judith, and father, Viateur, are from different ethnic groups in Rwanda — the Hutus and the Tutsis. This is from his article, titled […]
CONTINUE READINGAminita, better known as Amie, lost her father when she was very young and her mother recently succumbed to the Ebola virus. Amie is fifteen years old. After losing her mother, she moved in with her stepmother, her eldest brother, and his wife. In this new home, Amie was deprived of food by her stepmother and […]
CONTINUE READINGKidsave applauds the work of the Gates Foundation and Melinda Gates’ commitment to the health and development of women and girls. Yet, as leaders refine the Post 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the noticeable gap on the importance of a family for every child is a glaring omission. Women keep families strong — the development of […]
CONTINUE READINGSponsor a Child Millions of children are growing up in orphanages and foster care. Our programs are designed to shine a light on kids growing up without parents. We help these children find permanent, loving families. For $39 a month you can help a child separated from family be reunified with a parent, relative or […]
CONTINUE READINGDear Friends, 2014 was a year of challenges for children in government care – as was 2013, 2012 and all the years before. Unfortunately, most governments do not make children who live outside of families a priority and consequently these children suffer horrific physical and emotional abuse. They don’t develop normally and without caring adults […]
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