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Programme Activities PDF Print E-mail
LANS operations are based on three focus areas; adoption, advocacy, and quality of care for all children.

 Adoption

  • Provide high quality adoption services in Kenya through strategic networks of local and international child serving organizations.
  • Increase the capacity of local communities to retain vulnerable children

Advocacy

Advocate for policy changes that will lead to a culturally acceptable yet simple adoption process that enhances access to family care for every vulnerable child in Kenya

Quality of care 

  • Encourage family adoption of disabled children and avail information for specialized care in the home to adoptive parents of such children 
  • Research and document best systems and new developments in quality of care for disabled children; whether in families or in institutions

ACTIVITIES

  • Provision of adoption services; including counseling, linking adoptive parents with children, evaluations, home studies and declarations.
  • Networking with strategic child serving organizations to mobilize resources to best serve children 
  • Informative and motivation activities for parents - support groups, fun days, talks and focus group discussions
  • Providing links to counseling and legal services
  • Provision of trustworthy and high quality auxiliary services for international clients staying in Kenya for the adoption process.
  • Organizing meeting and educational seminars to key stakeholders in adoption; Embassies, government agencies, Child serving institutions, and legal networks
  • Raising awareness on the adoption process through the mass media in order to de-mystify adoption and encourage the public to choose adoption as an alternative for crises pregnancies
  • Advocacy for change in the Kenyan legal framework to make adoption available to more parents
  • Involvement in community development activities through direct intervention or by joining development committees for communities that have high child mortality and rejection rates.
  • Research, documentation and publication of best practices for special needs children.
 
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