The Family Strengthening Program enables children at risk of losing the care of their biological family to continue to grow in a family environment conducive to their development. Specifically, in our communities of intervention we target:

• Complete orphaned children (having both parents’ dead), child fathers of families (having both deceased parents, caring for their brothers and sisters still in training, in primary or secondary school),

• Partially orphaned children (the second living parent being indigent),

• Children whose parents have chronic illnesses (the second parent, if not sick, is needy),

• Children suffering from physical, psychological or moral abuse,

• Adults living in difficult circumstances and having an orphan and vulnerable child selected by the program.

What do we do? It is for us to

• We ensure that children have access to essential services (e.g education, nutrition, legal, medical and psychosocial care)

• We help families develop their capacity to protect and care for their children (e.g skills development in child care, parental health, future planning, financial and material resources)

• We strengthen child support systems for vulnerable children and their families in the communities. During program implementation, partnerships with community-based organizations / structures are established to achieve common goals. Planning, rigorous monitoring and ongoing evaluation are conducted to make the programs relevant and effective for successful exit of participating families and our communities of intervention after 3-5 years.

Youth management :

Young people develop attitudes, behavior, confidence and skills to take charge of their own future and become successful and active members of society. The children we care for, go to school or learn a trade and are gradually prepared for autonomy which in principle, occurs around the age of 23 when the young person has a first job, an income-generating activity or a viable training. Which will allow him to have a decent job.

« Statistics of our autonomous young people »

It is important to remember that admission to the Families program Origin and the SOS Families program is based on social surveys conducted by the Ministry of Social Affairs as well as the social services of SOS Children's Villages. Following these investigations, an admission committee made up of representatives of the SOS social affairs, social services, partner and stakeholder delegations meets to decide on the cases investigated and refer cases to the appropriate program on the basis of the best interests of the child.