Our staff in Bulgaria work with parents and families who are struggling to stay together. We provide them with the essential resources they need, so that children are able to grow up in safe family environments, rather than in institutions. Baby T* was born in Pleven with a congenital defect that required hospital care and […]
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 […]
Our CEO Mark Waddington writes from Ukraine, where he has been visiting our teams to understand their progress with our strategy and its impact on children. During his trip, he’s witnessed the incredible work our teams are doing under extremely trying, dangerous conditions: Yesterday was remarkable. We met one of our mobile teams in Bucha. […]
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 […]
Our CEO Mark Waddington writes from Ukraine, where he has been visiting our teams to understand their progress with our strategy and its impact on children. During his visit, he’s witnessed the incredible work our teams are doing under extremely trying, dangerous conditions: Yesterday morning I watched through the windscreen of our car as smoke […]
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.
