Comunità di S.Egidio












By 
Adriana Gulotta

 

International Foster Care
Ivory Coast

In Ivory Coast, the support project includes:

  Children of incarcerated women who are forced to live in prison with their mothers. The children who live in such conditions cannot grow up properly. They sleep in small cells with more than twenty people and terrible hygiene. The prison administration gives prisoners a single meal a day; the poor nutrition causes serious problems for the children's growth. The economic support through international foster care covers the primary needs of the child and goes toward legal expenses. In fact many women are often innocent or guilty of petty crimes and have to stay in prisons for years due to the lack of adequate legal assistance.

  Children with sick parents. These are families in serious difficulty because of the precarious health condition of one or both parents, malaria, AIDS, or something else.