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A view of a single storey residential building in Rwanda from outside the gates

What’s wrong with visiting and volunteering in orphanages?

by Hope and Homes for Children - 15 Apr 2019 FAQs, voluntourism

How volunteering in an orphanage could be hurting the people you’re there to help.

Jacinta, one of the children who was able to stay with her family thanks to our partners, Child in Need Institute India

“If I am educated, I can do anything”

by Hope and Homes for Children - 11 Mar 2019 Asia, education, India, keeping families together, story

“One day I would like to be an engineer,” Jacinta says with a grin. But not long ago, she had to drop out of school to earn money to help her family make ends meet.

An abandoned teddy bear sits in a wooden cubby hole in a dingy room

Orphanages are the problem

by Hope and Homes for Children - 26 Jan 2019 FAQs, Insight

Orphanages are the problem. They cause family separation. Learn how.

A Rwandan boy, Carrol, is held by his mother, as his father wraps his arm around her shoulder.

Carrol’s Story

by Hope and Homes for Children - 3 Dec 2018 Africa, disability, reuniting families, Rwanda, story

By  giving his parents  the  support  they needed to meet his additional needs, our team in Rwanda brought Carrol home from the orphanage and back to the people who love him.

World must wake up to dangers of orphanage care after deadly Guatemalan institution fire

by Hope and Homes for Children - 10 Mar 2017 Hope and Homes for Children, Latin America, news

We renew call for a world without orphanages, after fire kills 35 girls at a Guatemalan institution for teenagers.