Little Angels Network subscribes to the global agenda in the child protection arena to promote family based care and upbringing of children.  We are passionate about seeing every child growing up in a family. We recognize that a major focus of this shift away from the use of residential care for children is not simply about reducing the numbers of institutions and removing children from there, but also about establishing better preventive and family support services to reduce child-family separation and stop children going into alternative care in the first place.
Since our inception in 2002, we have worked towards connecting children living in institutions with families. We strongly believe that a loving family is the best place for a child to grow up in as it is best suited to ensure the holistic development of the child.
Initially, our focus was on strengthening charitable children institutions (orphanages and children homes) to improve the quality of care given to children in institutions. We did this through capacity building (trainings, formulation of child friendly policies and procedures plus financial support).  We worked closely with children homes, churches, together with the government and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to promote family based care of children. This mostly entailed foster care and adoption of children who had been completely separated from their families.
We believe that all children are created with inalienable rights including the right to identity, belonging, and nurture. Each child arrives with a bundle of rights that cannot be taken away from them. It is therefore imperative that the society at large makes every effort to ensure that the basic rights all children are protected. LANS has molded its work after the universal children rights aspirations contained in various instruments e.g UNCRC, ACRWC, Children Act 2001 and UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of children (1990). These instruments provide clear aspirations that provide us with a steady compass. Our focus is on the right of every child to grow up in a family where they receive; love, nurture, protection, discipline, and where all their basic needs are met.