West African Alternative Care Summit
@WAACSummit
West African Alternative Care Summit (WAACS) is a regional movement advancing family-based child care and homegrown solutions across West Africa.
To our incredible WAACS 2025 volunteers: Your hard work, grace under pressure, and dedication made the summit a success. You weren’t just helping — you were the heartbeat of the movement. What did WAACS mean to you? Share your experience below. #WAACS #WAACSUMMIT #WAACS2025
"Trauma isn’t just an experience, it’s an eternal wound." Dr. Julie Cooper said it best: “Survival is not enough.” Children deserve safety and healing. Let’s build systems that treat trauma with care. #WAACS2025 #WAACS #TraumaInformed #CareReform #AlternativeCare
We are grateful to the following organizations who have contributed their time, money, thoughts, resources and hearts to helping make the first-ever West Africa Alternative Care Summit (WAACS 2025) a success. #WAACS #WAACSUMMIT #WAACS2025 #WAACSUMMIT2025
Panel 1 Discussion Highlight: TOPIC: Sustainable Family-Based Alternatives "It’s not just about training and strengthening, we need peer support." - David Adoke. He emphasized the power of peer support groups among caregivers and practitioners. #WAACS2025 #WAACS
Good morning from Jos. It's Day 2 of WAACS 2025! After a powerful first day filled with truth, learning, and bold conversations, we’re back today with one clear focus: solutions that work and systems that last. #WAACS #WAACS2025 #WAACSUMMIT
"Nigeria has commercialized child care. We give our children out to other people to take care of them through commercial transactions. This is an act of irresponsibility on the part of the parents". Philemon Audu Daffi, ESQ. (Hon. Com. of Justice & Attorney Gen., Plateau State)
“Children First Software is not about data for data’s sake, it’s about reuniting children with families.” - KENNETH AYEBAZIBWE, Both Ends Believing (BEB) Children First Software (CFS) is free! #WAACS #WAACS2025
Sarah Ellis Speaking on "Strengthening Families": "Family strengthening works by building the support system around families to keep children at home with safe, nurturing parents. Children belong in families. God's design for children is to grow in families" #WAACS2025
Dr. Julie Cooper, PhD: "It is not just an experience but an eternal wound. Trauma changes the way children develop. Survival is not enough for children. Trauma is so common and has become a way of life. We can provide better for children going through trauma." #WAACSUMMIT
Day 1 of #WAACS2025 has been filled with powerful conversations, smiling faces, and a shared commitment to transforming care for children across Africa. #WAACSSUMMIT
"Mentoring does not change one live, it changes an entire generation, community, culture and nations." Dr. Ken Merrifield and Donnovan Karber spoke on Mentoring and why society need to embrace mentoring. #WAACSUMMIT #WAACSUMMIT2025
"African Practices holds the key to solving African challenges. As an organization, we want to share our learning and experience and challenges faced for better solutions because child care is a continental concern. Our greatest asset is our children.” - David Adoke #WAACS2025
"Thousands of children across Africa live in care" - Sandra Chikan, Convener. "Children do better in families and stable homes" - Ade Owolo, Co-convener. She challenged everyone in the room to rethink systems and center care around children and families. #WAACS2025 #WAACS
From early registration to warm welcomes, the energy is palpable and the anticipation is high. Delegates from across West Africa are making history here at #WAACS2025 Swipe to experience the arrival moments and smiles of hope. #AlternativeCare #ChildCareReform
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