Children’s Home Program
Children’s home program is a program whereby full/semi-orphan children especially vulnerable children living with HIV AIDS get a loving home whereby their nutritional, health, emotional, and physical needs are properly addressed. The objective of this program is to effectively meet the health, nutrition, hygiene physical, emotional, educational, and recreational needs of full/semi orphan children especially children affected with HIV.
Day Care Program
While mothers are playing the bread-winning responsibility of their families, Lola keeps their children in its daycare program and provides them with food, health care, kindergarten education, recreation, and hygiene materials. Mothers and children are the main beneficiaries of this program.
Community Outreach Program
The community outreach program has two wings which are regular beneficiaries and emergency beneficiaries. Community outreach program is the most effective one, as it supports not only the children but also the family at the same time. Under this program, Lola has been serving different host community members, displaced mothers and children who are exposed to different socio-economic problems due to COVID-19 and the war in Tigray with Food, non-food items (NFI’s), cash-based intervention, clean water distribution, and healthcare service so far more than 14,000 households and children are benefited from this program.
Local Adoption
We don’t believe the increasing number of Orphan Children due to the war in Tigray will be only tackled with the programs we had before. Therefore, introducing adoption as alternative child care becomes mandatory for Lola to address more children. Adoption is a procedure by which people legally assume the role of parents for a person who is not their biological child. Adopted children become full members of their adopted family and have the same legal status as biological children. This could work in the case of children who are found abandoned and whose family tree cannot be traced, for children whose parents are willing to give away their child for good, and whose parents are permanently unable to take care of their children.