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A significant step towards ensuring child protection is at the heart of EU Member States’ policies, and a great opportunity to address care reform
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As a result of the deadly earthquake in Nepal, some children are more at risk of being placed into orphanages. Help us prevent this.
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Humanitarian emergencies often drive the institutionalisation of children. Will lessons from Ukraine help disaster preparation and care reform work together to keep children safe?
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“Mummy, I don’t want to go back to the orphanage. Please let me come home.” These are the words of Sunil*, a young boy from Nepal who spent two years inside an orphanage. Read on to find out how we reunited him with his family.
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Many children growing up in Nepal’s orphanages regularly go hungry, suffer beatings, and live in constant fear. This Christmas, we urgently need your support to help reunite children in orphanages with their families. Watch our video to find out how you can help keep children safe from harm.
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MEPs formally recognise trafficking links to institutionalisation in the EU Anti-Trafficking directive
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Our patron Natalie Pinkham and ambassador Rukhiya Budden spoke to BBC Radio East of England this October to illustrate the importance of our orphanage tourism campaign.
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Volunteer tourism can be great for volunteers and the communities that receive them. But we need to be absolutely clear: volunteering in an orphanage abroad is a bad idea.
Here are tips to tell your volunteering story on social media, using language and images to make a positive impact and break stereotypes, not reinforce them.
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For Anti-Slavery Week 2022, we’re launching the #EndOrphanageTourism campaign. Hear Sophie’s story of why she will never volunteer at an orphanage again.
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Most people who volunteer overseas genuinely want to do something meaningful and experience a new culture. But often they are doing more harm than good.