“We continue to give the children institutionalized care not because it is ideal, but because of their circumstantial being,” Zambian Bishop Charles Kasonde, chairman of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Africa, said in an address to the conference of Catholic Care for Children International.
At a May 16-18 gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, sisters and other religious and civil leaders in African countries, the U.S. and Italy gathered to exchange ideas for new models of caring for vulnerable children.
The meeting under the theme, “Reading the Signs of the Times Together: Catholic Care for Children”, brought together the Catholic Care for Children International (CCCI) and Catholic Care for Children Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi and Sri Lanka.
<p style="margin-bottom:16px"><a href="https://catholiccareforchildren.org/">Catholic Care for Children International</a>, a global initiative to reform the way women and men religious care for orphaned or abandoned children, will hold its first in-person meeting of international partners.</p>