By Andrew Mullens | Kimbilio Support
Hi, Thank you so much for your donations to this Kimbilio Project to Reunite Children with their Families. Every child deserves to be brought up in the safety and warmth of their own family.
The Kimbilio team of Carers in Lubumbashi work had to identify the family of each street child who comes to their Day Centre and to establish whether the child can be safely reintegrated with the family. Sometimes, for example, it may be a grandparent or an aunt who is best placed to take the child into their home if the child's parents are unwell or deceased or if they cannot financially support the child any more. The Kimbilio Carers may offer a sack of grain to the family to help them to feed the extra mouth or to pay for school fees, books and uniform.
Locating a child's family and negotiating the child's return may take many months, so often the child will come and live in the Kimbilio short-term house in Lubumbashi where they will a health check up, regular meals and clothing. Your donations help Kimbilio to look after the child from the moment they come to the Day Centre to when they are successfully reintegrated into their family.
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