Double first for foster care in Maldives

Foster care is new to the Maldives and it is the first time that the legal guardianship of children will be transferred through court, as well as the first time that children have been placed with foster families.

New regulations allow children to be placed under foster care

The ministry of law and gender has enacted new regulations governing foster care for children under state care, the first institutional and legal framework of its kind in the Maldives.

Abandoned child legally assigned foster parents for first time in Maldivian history

Foster parents found for abandoned baby