Upcoming Events:

January 11, 2012: International Service Opportunities Fair, 7 to 8:30pm at the CDC

January 12, 2012: Information session with KaeMe's Leadership at 7pm in Old Union, room 122

January 14, 2012: Early applications due by midnight: submit an early application so you have time to apply for Haas Center Fellowships to fund your trip!

January 19, 2012: Premed Talk with Dr. Michael McCullough, Location TBA

January 21, 2012: Regular applications due by midnight

February 29, 2012: Silicon Valley Nonprofit Career Fair, 5-8pm, Tresidder Union

Click here to apply.

Vision

For every child in an orphanage to find a healthy loving family

Mission

Our mission is two-fold: to build families and protect vulnerable children by creating a video-driven Internet database of child profiles; and to provide service volunteers with a deeply meaningful experience that will remain with them for a lifetime.

Priorities

Reunify children with extended families whenever possible, through the use of information compiled in child profiles and the support of donor sponsorships
Facilitate fostering or adoption when reunification is not possible
When no family care option can be found for a child, use donor sponsorships to otherwise support happy and healthy childhoods for children currently housed in orphanages
Provide volunteers with the support and opportunities required to allow them to significantly impact the lives of vulnerable children.

About

KaeMe seeks to build loving families, one child at a time. We break down the information barriers that prevent orphaned or abandoned children from leaving institutions and entering family-based care through reunification, fostering or adoption. KaeMe is building a new information-age model to promote the best interest of each and every child by leveraging the power of internet and database technology.

As part of this process, KaeMe volunteer teams work hand-in-hand with the Department of Social Welfare to survey orphanages across Ghana. These visits capture essential information about each child’s history, health, and welfare. Video-recorded interviews with each child ensure that they have the opportunity to tell their story, in their own voice. The Department of Social Welfare then uses the resultant multimedia profile database to reunite children with their families or to place them with prospective foster and adoptive families in Ghana and abroad.

Once a potential placement is identified, KaeMe provides children with basic resources needed to facilitate the transition – school tuition, health care referrals and stipends, and so forth. We believe that breaking information barriers is only the first step; we are equally committed to providing the material support required to transform a potential family a real one.

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