Livelihoods & Family Wellbeing
Stronger caregivers. Thriving children. Resilient families.
A child’s wellbeing is closely linked to the wellbeing and stability of their caregiver.
Santé works with children and caregivers together. We connect young children to health, nutrition, early learning and development services while supporting caregivers to build stronger livelihoods, save, plan and access economic opportunities.
Our goal is to strengthen the whole family so that children can grow up in safer, healthier and more nurturing environments.
Livelihoods & wellbeing
What We Do
Stronger caregivers. Thriving children. Resilient families.
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Caregiver livelihoods and enterprise: We support caregivers to strengthen existing livelihoods, build practical business skills and access income-generating opportunities.
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Savings and financial resilience: We connect families to VSLAs, SACCOs and other savings mechanisms while strengthening financial literacy and household planning.
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Market and economic linkages: We link caregivers to markets, services and economic opportunities, including through digital platforms.
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Young child wellbeing: Through programmes such as Found & Growing, we identify children missing essential services and reconnect them to health, nutrition, early learning and other support.
About 74% go without medical care and attention yearly.
How it Works
A two-generational approach:
Supporting Children and Caregivers Together.
Understand family needs
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Connect the child to essential services
Health • Nutrition • Early learning • Development
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Strengthen the caregiver
Livelihoods • Savings • Skills • Economic opportunities
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Follow progress across both generations
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Learn what strengthens family wellbeing
We work through community structures to connect families to the right mix of services and opportunities, while tracking whether both children and caregivers are progressing.
Partnerships and Sustainability
Building resilience through systems families already use.
We work with caregiver groups, VSLAs and SACCOs, community and refugee-led organisations, early childhood providers, health facilities, local government and private-sector partners.
Our approach builds on existing community systems rather than creating parallel ones. By strengthening both child wellbeing and caregiver economic resilience, we aim to support families beyond the life of a single project.
We also generate evidence on what works so that effective approaches can be adapted, strengthened and taken up by government and other partners.