Just a couple of days ago a father told us that his child had previously had no interest in anything at all. Now he’s started showing interest in toys. A new centre for children with disabilities opened on 30th March, in Bucha, Ukraine. Four months on, the centre is providing a vital day care service […]
Orphanage trafficking happens when children are recruited into orphanages not because they have no one to care for them, but because their presence attracts donations. At least 5.4 million children are locked away in orphanages worldwide — over 80% are not orphans. Hope and Homes for Children works to bring children Back to Family. When […]
When a child moves from an orphanage back to their birth family, into kinship care, foster care or adoption, a fair question follows: does it last? In the UK, placement breakdown is a well-documented and serious issue — so it’s natural for supporters to ask whether the same risk applies to the children Hope and […]
More than 5.4 million children around the world are locked away in orphanages — and over 80% of them are not orphans. In Ghana, 250 delegates from 13 countries came together to address that crisis. HHC’s Regional Advocacy Manager Stephen Ucembe was there. Here is what he heard — and what it means for the […]
In 2001, Hope and Homes for Children arrived in South Africa with four local partners and one conviction: no child needs to grow up in an orphanage. Twenty-five years on, South Africa has committed to ending institutionalisation of children by 2030. This is how it happened. What we found: South Africa’s hidden crisis When Hope […]
The Summer 2026 issue of Alliance magazine, one of the world’s leading philanthropic journals, asks a question the sector has long avoided: whose voices actually count? Hope and Homes for Children’s Victoria Olarte and Stephen Ucembe guest edited the special feature on youth, philanthropy, and radical accountability. Here’s what they found. Stephen Ucembe is a lived experience professional; he […]
Nepal’s first foster child placement. Photo: The Himalayan Innovative Society / Forget Me Knot / Hope and Homes for Children
On International Missing Children’s Day, a powerful art installation at the heart of European politics asks us to look at what we already know — and act on it. In a bedroom, football shirts hang on the wall, school books sit open on the desk and clothes are discarded on the floor. It’s a room […]
In Moominvalley, there is a place for everyone. No creature, however lost or lonely, is left without warmth, safety and the people who care for them. That’s the world Hope and Homes for Children are fighting to build for every child. We’re thrilled to introduce a new partnership between Hope and Homes for Children and […]
From 35,000 institutionalised children in 1989 to less than a hundred today, Bulgaria has been on a transformative childcare journey. With the support of our donors, our Bulgaria team has been at the heart of the change which has brought thousands of children Back to Family. On this International Day of Families, Galina Bisset celebrates […]
