SAFE PATHS Children & Families Initiative
Stage: Funding
A child- and family-centred initiative designed to help children experiencing severe vulnerability move toward safety, stable family or appropriate care, education and sustained wellbeing through responsible case management and family strengthening.
How we can work together
Partners may sponsor the complete project or agree on a defined phase after reviewing the scope, budget, timeline and reporting plan. Ameliorate Missions will serve as the local implementing partner: coordinating consultations and required approvals, recruitment, training, execution, safeguarding, financial records and progress reports. Responsibilities, payment arrangements and any restrictions will be set out in a written agreement before work begins.
For projects at a planning stage, activities and targets below are proposals. We will publish verified field updates as work progresses.
Contact us to discuss sponsoring this project →Why this project exists
To establish safe, individually assessed pathways that protect vulnerable children, strengthen families where safe and appropriate, support education and reduce unnecessary separation of children from family and community.
The programme will be developed with qualified child-protection actors and in accordance with applicable Kenyan child-protection requirements.
The pathway is:
Protect → Assess → Understand → Trace → Strengthen → Reintegrate where safe → Educate → Follow Up.
Where family reintegration is unsafe or inappropriate, the programme will work through authorised child-protection mechanisms and qualified partners to identify appropriate alternatives.
How partnership helps
Children living or working on the streets, experiencing family breakdown or facing extreme poverty often encounter multiple and interconnected vulnerabilities.
Immediate assistance can be important, but sustainable change requires understanding why a particular child became vulnerable in the first place.
SAFE PATHS will therefore prioritise protection, individual assessment, family tracing where appropriate, family strengthening, education and sustained follow-up rather than treating institutional care as the automatic solution.
What we intend to achieve
Indicators will be established with qualified child-protection partners and may include children safely assessed, case plans completed, education participation, safe family reunifications, household-strengthening interventions, referrals completed and stability at follow-up.