THE EMBRACE ZAMBIA PROJECT
Since 2014, we have served as exclusive partners with the Government to prepare over 450 local families for fostering and adoption.
As the exclusive partners of the Government, Embrace Zambia recruits, trains, approves, and certifies families for emergency, short-term, and permanent placements in-country.
Our work is volunteer-led and relies on local advocacy from a multi-denominational network of pastors, adoptive parents, and leaders. Across the country our advocates encourage Christians to embrace orphaned and abandoned children into their families just as God embraced us as adopted children:
God destined us for adoption as God’s children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of God’s will, to the praise of God’s glorious grace that God freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
- Ephesians 1:5
Embrace Zambia is rooted in Christian faith, affirming that God has established the church with a powerful voice, authority, presence, mandate, permanency, and people to bring orphaned and abandoned children into loving, safe, and permanent families.
EMBRACE ZAMBIA SERVICES
Awareness
We partner with local pastors and other advocates to raise awareness about the great need for foster and adoptive families within Zambia. We inspire the church to understand fostering and adoption as a faithful response to the needs of orphaned and abandoned children.
Training
We prepare prospective foster and adoptive parents through training sessions as required by the Government. ACE Zambia staff and guest speakers address the spiritual, legal, emotional, and cultural dimensions of family-based care in Zambia.
Assessment
Our social workers evaluate families’ preparedness to provide a secure, stable, and permanent home for foster or adoptive children. Our thorough home assessments consider the capacities and context of all household members.
Certification
We maintain a registry of families who are fully vetted to be matched with a child for emergency, short-term, and permanent fostering and adoption. The Government matches families from this registry with a child in order to begin the bonding process
ADVOCATE FOR FOSTERING AND ADOPTION
