article_snippet.sent: How does a child come to live in your home?
article_snippet.sent: we first priority as an organization is to keep a child with their family if at all possible.
article_snippet.sent: In order to come into the home, you need to have lost both parents, or in some rare cases have suffered extreme neglect, abuse or have a parent who's incarcerated.
article_snippet.sent: So usually that involves going to the child's village, making calls, doing police checks, getting documentation and paperwork.
article_snippet.sent: We have to dig up birth certificates, death certificates, make sure that everything lines up the way that they say it does.
article_snippet.sent: We try to relieve the burden from the family, so that the child has food, medical care, books, zero fees for education.