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February 6, 2019

Okra AI is helping foster kids find stable homes

Okra AI has a 93% accuracy rate of identifying foster matches that will not break down.


Kitty Knowles

5 min read

Okra AI is helping foster kids have stable homes. Credit: CC/pxhere/1439033

Abuse and neglect are the main reasons kids go into foster care: in the UK alone over 65,000 children live with foster families. What these vulnerable children need is a stable home, but too often a foster match falls apart, and these youngsters end up being shifted from family to family in a punishing cycle.

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Loubna Bouarfa, founder Okra. Credit: Okra.
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