Transitional Care Services

Safe, temporary, family-focused environments for children and women in crisis

Transitional Care Services include:
• Grace Village (transitional care for abandoned children)
• Transitional Safe House for Women (short-term protection & trauma recovery)
• Transitional Safe House for Children (rehabilitation & reunification for street-connected and unaccompanied children)

1.Grace Village (Transitional Care for Abandoned Children)

Goal: A safe pathway toward family, adoption, or independent adulthood.

Grace Village provides temporary, family-like care for children referred through social services, typically abandoned infants or children without known caregivers.

The goal is always reunification or domestic adoption whenever safe and possible.

Key Services

  • holistic emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, and physical care

  • enrolment in school to ensure strong educational foundations

  • medical treatment and hospital referrals

  • extensive family tracing and safety assessments

  • domestic adoption through a monitored six-month foster-to-adopt process

  • life-skills training and preparation for independence

  • counselling to support identity, belonging, and attachment

Family - Based Care First

Children remain at Grace Village only until a safe family-based solution becomes available, or until they are ready for independent life if no safe relatives exist.

2. Transitional Safe House for Women

Goal: Immediate protection, healing, and reintegration for survivors of gender-based violence.

Up to 60 women and infants, where needed, receive temporary sanctuary for up to three months, designed to stabilise, heal, and rebuild safety.

Key Services

  • trauma counselling (individual and group)

  • psychosocial support and emotional stabilisation

  • medical care and referrals

  • crisis helpline and emergency response

  • positive parenting support

  • life-skills and coping-skills sessions

  • literacy support where needed

  • linkage to economic empowerment programmes

  • preparation for reintegration

  • transport, relocation, and follow-up support

Aftercare

Women receive one full year of follow-up, including home visits, counselling, and support to ensure lasting safety and stability.

3. Transitional Safe House for Children

Goal: Rehabilitation, stabilisation and safe family reintegration

AO supports children who became street children or unaccompanied due to displacement, conflict, addiction, or loss of family support.

Children stay for up to three months before reintegration.

Key Services

  • safe and stable accommodation

  • trained live-in caregivers

  • individual counselling and life-skills development

  • structured routines, sports, play, and recreation

  • psychosocial support and addiction withdrawal support

  • medical care through community clinics and hospitals

  • family tracing, mediation, and counselling

  • school reintegration and learning support

  • economic empowerment linkage for families when needed

Aftercare

Reunified children receive one year of follow-up to ensure safety, school attendance, emotional stability, and a successful return to family life.

Transitional Care Programme Results

  • Children abandoned or separated are safely reintegrated into family life

    AO’s tracing and assessment teams ensure children reunify only with safe, loving caregivers or join adoptive families when reunification is not possible.

  • Women survivors leave with renewed safety, healing, and confidence

    After three months of protection, counselling, and support, women re-enter their communities with improved well-being, coping skills, and economic pathways.

  • Street children rebuild stability and return to school or home

    Through rehabilitation, structured routines, and counselling, children overcome harmful coping behaviours and restore their futures.