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Carisa Lee

The man­ag­er of the Fos­ter Care Unit at the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go is rais­ing a red flag over the low rate of ap­pli­cants for fos­ter care.

“We’ve re­al­ly tak­en a dip,” An­juli Tewari told Guardian Me­dia in an in­ter­view to mark the launch of Adop­tion and Fos­ter Care Aware­ness Month last week. Tewari re­vealed that there are cur­rent­ly 164 chil­dren in fos­ter care. Of these, 53 are placed with rel­a­tives un­der the au­thor­i­ty’s Kin­ship Care Pro­gramme.