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Hope and Homes for Children

Orphanages harm children. Always. We're working towards a world in which children never have to suffer life in an orphanage, and always have a safe and loving family to rely on.

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Orphanages harm children.

The majority of those who experience life inside an institution suffer violence, abuse and neglect. Denied the chance to grow up in a family, they’re more likely to become homeless later in life, to have run-ins with the law, and to experience mental and physical health issues.

The shocking truth is that these are almost always children who have, or could have, a family to look after them. To love them. But every day, a broken system puts pressure on parents to give up their children. They'll be safe from war, can escape poverty, will get an education. False promises. No child should have to trade their family for their future.

Today, over 5.4 million children are trapped within institutions. It’s not right and it must stop. Children deserve so much better. Always.

Since 1994, Hope and Homes for Children has been working to stop the institutionalisation of children. We’re 250 people, in ten countries, inspiring organisations, including the UN, EU and governments around
the world, to close the doors of orphanages forever. Instead, we fight for every child to feel the love and belonging of a safe family home.

As challenges get tougher, we work harder – with children, for children. Our care reform specialists set up community-based family support services. Our policy experts promote stronger child protection laws. And our skilled social workers work directly with children to keep families together, to reunite them, and to nurture new ones. Through national reform, we inspire global action. And we’ll continue. Transforming the system. Consigning orphanages to history. Until every child, everywhere, has the chance to thrive in a strong, supported family.

Because children deserve better.

Your Impact

Since 1994, we’ve been transforming care systems in the Latin American and the Caribbean, East Africa, Eastern Europe and South Asia, replacing orphanages with community based family support. So far, we’ve supported over 250,000 children around the world into strong, supported families. By 2030, we’ll have helped close every orphanage in Bulgaria, Rwanda, Romania and Moldova.

£15

£15 could provide essential clothing, such as a warm winter coat, to a child leaving an orphanage to be reunited with their family.

£35

£35 could provide school uniform, a bag, pens and pencils, and other essential items to a child to help them feel prepared and confident to take this vital step.

£158

£158 could provide a family at risk of separation with the things they need to stay together. Sometimes this might be emergency rent assistance, access to medicine, or help finding a job. There are any number of ways we can provide targeted support.