Community-based care programs may be described as having a strong ‘prevention’ component, in that they seek to strengthen community coping capacities in order to avoid the adolescent becoming dependent on adults.
The service this agency provides is supporting children and families in the child welfare system.
Extended families will frequently take sole responsibility for many orphans, using their own resources to provide accommodation, food, clothing, education and nurture.
Africa: The FOCUS program run by Family AIDS Caring Trust in Zimbabwe has mobilized community volunteers to visit and encourage more than 4000 orphans.
The Global Interfaith Partnership http://www.globalinterfaithpartnership.com provides multiple services for orphans and vulnerable children in western Kenya which insure food security, safe housing, uninterrupted education, and healthy psychosocial development.