Kenya's government will abolish all privately owned orphanages and children's homes within the next eight years, a government minister has said.
She said the children would be placed in family and community care, which offered a better environment for them. "In the next eight years private homes will not exist. We need to prepare in order to absorb those children," she said on Sunday during an inspection of children's care facilities under construction by Kenya's government.
The law recommended placing children without families in alternative care such as guardianship, foster care placement and adoption to curb the abuse and trafficking of children.
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