We currently have 42 children under our care and are also working towards family reunification and family strengthening.
Our goal is to help these children still in our home and others be safe and loving families through kinship care, family reunification, foster care, and adoption.
We're raising funds to help us transition our Home, feed and care for the children currently within our home, improve our facility, and resettle children within our care into safe and loving families.
If children are in families, we can impact more children by providing child-centered, family-focused care.
We don't want our support to end for a child after they've resettled into their homes and families.
In fact, our assessments indicate that there is often a great need in supporting the transition for both the child and families immediately after resettlement for the best possible success.
Lubasi children playing basketball
Lubasi children playing
Services we currently provide to children and families:
Mother teaching children
What is Family-based care?
Family-based care focuses on providing the love, nurture, and security that allows a child to thrive through reunification with biological parents, kinship care, foster care, or adoption.
Children thrive best when growing up within their families, where they absorb norms, values, ethics, and community roles, as opposed to childcare facilities, where these essential aspects of development may be missed.
We are currently fundraising so that we are able to continue provided care for children living in the home, while also transitioning to a more family-based care model.
Also, a vital part of supporting family care is strengthening families to prevent unnecessary separation. To this end, we're raising funds to do the following:
Our Program
To ensure the sustainability of family-based care, we are doing the following:
Changing the way we care to a family-based approach
Children should be families and kinship care, not orphanages.
Research affirms that the best environment for children is within a loving, secure family.
At Lubasi Home, we seek the best interest of each child, which is finding a permanent family setting as soon as possible.
That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
Children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families, and we are now shifting towards a family-based care model.
Our Work
and why it matters.
Our program's transition emphasizes sustainable family-based care more than institutionalization while advocating for children's best interests.
Lubasi Home kids smiling for a photo together
Our Programs
With the general running of our Home, these are the programs we are focusing on to one day be able to impact more children by supporting them in loving families.
Transitioning our model while improving and running our home
We're raising funds to help us transition while we feed and care for the children currently within our home, improve our facility, and resettle children within our care into safe and loving families. If children are in families, we can impact more children by providing child-centered, family-focused care.
We don't want our support to end for a child after they've resettled into families; In fact, our assessments indicate that there is often a great need in supporting the transition for both the child and families immediately after resettlement for the best possible success. To achieve this, we actively connect families with existing institutions to foster ongoing support and growth. Our dream is to eventually extend our support to families in our community experiencing poverty, family issues, and lack of services.
Once we've updated our facilities and resettled children into families, our program seeks to engage through family assistance and community events; equip families through financial empowerment, child and youth development education, and spiritual growth. In addition, we want to elevate families through family coaching, counseling, and spiritual enrichment.
We can see the difference we are making in the community is working. Our goal is to make the need for traditional orphanages obsolete by embracing family-based and community-based care in our community.
Once we've fully transitioned, we will be able to provide job training, parenting classes, crisis support, and therapy to meet the basic needs of families who live nearby.
Continuum of Care
Family-based care and Kinship care
Lubasi Home is raising funds to help with family-based care services. In most cases, kinship care – where extended families take care of babies or children whose parents have died or abandoned them. We're also, raising funds to facilitate foster care and adoptions for children into loving families.
We want to provide these family members with financial support, food, health care, and parenting coaching from our staff.
To prevent unnecessary family separation, we're also creating community awareness of alternative childcare methods and child protection, specifically on positive parenting, children’s rights and responsibilities, penal code, alternative family care, child abuse, and challenges of adolescents.
Family Strengthening
We know that children have the best chance to thrive when they grow up in a family. That's why we're committed to strengthening families and helping keep them together.
While our home is raising funding for the running costs of our home so that we can meet the essential needs of the children in our care right now, we are also raising funds to provide support and empowerment to the already resettled families.
It's our goal to provide families with spiritual development and skills training that build a strong foundation for empowerment and self-sufficiency. For the children who haven't yet resettled, we are raising funds to provide them and their families a resettlement package when the reunification does happen.
We provide education, healthcare, spiritual development, and skills training build a strong foundation for empowerment and self-sufficiency. Furthermore, we plan to help parents and caregivers gain skills that can help sustain their families for the long-term, including:
- Necessities, such as food and healthcare as needed
- Parenting coaching and life skills training
- Family support counseling via trained therapists and social workers
- Economic planning, caregiver workshops, and job skill development so that they earn income from trade skills
- Ongoing case management, with follow-ups to monitor progress after reunification, making referrals when necessary