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.
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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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