Preventing Separation. Strengthening Families. Reimagining Care.
Across Africa, millions of children are at risk of being separated from their families due to poverty, disability, violence, migration, conflict, and a lack of support services. Too often, separation leads children into institutions, despite evidence that most children living in orphanages have at least one living parent or relative.
Transform Alliance Africa is a growing collective of more than 20 African-led organisations across 12 countries, working to prevent unnecessary family separation and ensure children grow up in safe, loving, family and community-based care.
Through our collective voice, knowledge, research, and lived experience, we engage governments, regional bodies, and civil society while partnering closely with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC).
Together, we are driving systemic change that strengthens families, supports communities, transforms care systems, and builds a future where every child grows up with love, identity, belonging, and the opportunity to thrive.
Around the world, 5.4 million children are growing up in institutions. In Africa alone, more than 80% of children in orphanages still have at least one living parent. This is not care—it is separation.
Transform Alliance Africa is a growing collective of over 20 African‑led organisations across 12 countries. We are the African voice working to end institutional care and replace it with safe, loving, family‑based alternatives.
Through our collective voice, knowledge, and lived experience, we engage governments, regional bodies, and non‑governmental actors, while partnering closely with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC).
Together, we drive systemic change that strengthens families, protects children, and builds a future where every child grows up with love, identity, and belonging.
What we stand for
Every child belongs in a family
The evidence is overwhelming: children thrive in families, not institutions. We exist to make that a reality, one community at a time across Africa.
African solutions for African children
Our members are locally rooted and community-trusted. Together, we amplify homegrown knowledge into lasting, continent-wide system change.
Strength in solidarity
When African organisations share knowledge, advocate together, and learn from each other, children's lives change. That is what this alliance is for.
Latest Advocacy Updates
Rooted in Families: How BRAVEAURORA is Reimagining Care for Children in Ghana
For over a decade, BRAVEAURORA has walked alongside children and families in northern Ghana, championing a simple but powerful conviction: every child deserves to grow up in a loving and caring family. In Ghana today, far too many children are growing up without the care, love and security of a family. One in five children lives …
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Rooted in Families: A Personal Reflection from a Care Leaver
As a care leaver, the phrase “rooted in families” carries deep personal significance. Care for children is not just a policy issue—it’s profoundly personal. I grew up in institutional care, and I know what it feels like to live without permanency, to constantly wonder where you truly belong. That’s why this campaign resonates so strongly with me. …
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Every Child Deserves a Family: How FAMadagascar Is Transforming Child Protection
In Madagascar, thousands of children grow up in institutions—not because of abuse or neglect, but often due to poverty, lack of support, and weak child protection systems. This is more than a statistic; it’s a crisis that affects the future of a generation. FAMadagascar is leading the way in changing this reality. As a pioneer …
Every Child Deserves a Family: How FAMadagascar Is Transforming Child Protection Read More »
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A growing African-led movement
We are a collective of over 20 member organisations across 12+ African countries, united by local expertise and shared vision.
Together, our voices carry further, our knowledge goes deeper, and our impact is greater.
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