Our CEO Mark Waddington has been visiting our teams in Ukraine to understand their progress with our strategy, and its impact on children. Here, he speaks with Alevtyna Zhembotska, a Regional Project Manager for Hope and Homes for Children in the Kyiv Oblast. Hi Alevtyna, we first met in April 2022, shortly after the full-scale […]
A new global conference is boosting international awareness that institutions are harming children and that institutionalisation must end. When you think of violence against children, what are the images that spring to mind? A smack? A punch? A wounded child in a warzone? Usually when we hear the word violence, our minds go the physical […]
Hope and Homes for Children began working with local authorities and national government in Romania in 1998. Since then, we’ve made remarkable progress in transforming the care system and making the world a better place for many thousands of children to grow up in. Our Chief Executive Mark Waddington writes with an update on our […]
You might have seen the recent reports about the flooding and landslides that hit Nepal late last month. In the Kathmandu valley, the worst rains in over two decades took the lives of over 200 people, including 35 children. Fortunately, all the reunified children, families and communities we and our partners in Nepal – Forget […]
Earlier this year, our team in Bulgaria closed another orphanage in Kardjali, bringing up to 40 children back to family or into family-based alternative care solutions. Last month, your donations changed lives. Because of your continued generosity, our team successfully shut down the ‘Home for Medical and Social Care for Children’ orphanage in Kardjali, South […]
The Summit and Pact for the Future are an opportunity for a future without child institutionalisation: it’s now up to world leaders to seize it On 22 and 23 September 2024, world leaders gathered in New-York at the occasion of the Summit of the Future. The high-level intergovernmental event was an opportunity to take stock of […]
Thanks to your donations, there are now only three orphanages left to close in Bulgaria. Read on to find out how we’re shutting them down.
Every year, on October 17th, the world comes together to observe the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This day, also known as World Poverty Day, sheds light on the millions of families worldwide who live in extreme poverty, facing an uphill battle against hardship, inequality, and separation. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty theme focuses on […]
The Mihăescus are a family with 5 children, ages 1 to 16. When we met them, in March 2021, they were at risk of losing their children
Thanks to your donations, our team in Romania has completed the closure of an orphanage in Iași County, bringing the 40 children trapped inside back to family.
