About Us

How we started

Variety Children and Family Services is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) formed in Sierra Leone in January 2012 to provide de facto parenting to babies, infants, street children, and orphans of the Ebola outbreak and other natural disasters of the country in therapeutic foster homes.

This NGO aims to intervene in the lives of children whose lives are at risk and may pose a future danger to national peace and stability and the broader security of the world. We provide individualized rehabilitative services in nurturing homes, emphasizing each child’s education. In addition, we offer family tracing, recognition and rehabilitation of family connections, and eventual reunification of children with their family of origin.

Our primary duty and obligation to these children is to educate them, give them hope and prepare them for the future.

VCFS strives for realistic solutions to children’s issues through a public betterment corporation. These issues range from trends, characteristics, behaviors and challenges to working with children who have been abandoned, physically, emotionally and sexually abused, orphaned due to the Ebola outbreak or other disasters and have developed severe emotional, mental and psycho-social disorders.

Key activities

• Setting up a positive treatment plan to care for and treat children with severe emotional disorders.
• Personal development of children to build a positive attitude and engage them in education, enabling them to have a better future.
• Teaching children basic living skills.
• Biological family tracing, counselling, and reunification with family or extended families.
• Placing children with a foster family or adoptive parents where appropriate.
• Program development and management services within communities at provincial and district levels throughout Sierra Leone.
• Delivering supplementary education in collaboration with the school curriculum, safety and protection to all the children in our care.
• Continuous observation, supervision and guidance.

Our commitment to the children

• To be honest, fair and sincere when dealing with each child in our care.
• To provide a nurturing, caring environment conducive to a family setting.
• To make the responsibility of our children our primary priority.
• To modify or eliminate the symptoms that led to the psychological and or behavioural dysfunction which caused major psycho-social problems between the child and his/her family, school and the community.

1. To create a holistic environment for the children and make the responsibility of the children our primary priority.
2. To provide constant observation, supervision and guidance.
3. To provide adequate supplementary education in collaboration with the school curriculum, and safety and protection for all children in our care.
4. To adhere to the highest standard of ethical and professional behaviour.
5. To create a foundation of spiritual growth and development in each child’s immediate environment.
6. To be honest, fair sincere and also build trust, credibility and respect within the child welfare community, the VCFS organisation, and the communities in which our services are provided.