Child Abuse

Adopted children have so many difficulties in the lives of their foster families. Their rights are ignored and broken because there is no one to look after their rights. In case of learning and studies, they do not have time to study because many foster children must take all household duties while other children have time to learn.

These children feel slighted by others, and they do not have time for playing or enjoying life with other children. They always get manifold works at home, and in the event of claiming their rights, they are punished. More often than not, these children do not eat the same food as other children. Even if they eat, they are never satisfied.

All these problems bring deep worries to foster children, to the point that they cannot grow up in good health as other children do. Consequently, some of these youth leave their foster homes and go elsewhere to look out for their own life. In those cases, some die, some become bandits, and others become drug addicts and thieves. They see that they are left behind because their parents were dead. This realization can cause some orphans to kill or hang themselves, and that causes so many problems in the human life.

It is true that LWF (Lutheran World Federation) Child Protection Unit is appointed to protect and monitor the safety of adopted children in Kakuma, but in my experience, they only protect something like 20 percent of the unaccompanied minors living in the camp. In my opinion, the program really neglects or forgets a good number of children who come as unaccompanied refugee minors. LWF Child Protection appoints caseworkers to monitor foster children in their homes, but in reality, the children are rarely visited after a foster arrangement is completed.