Hope and Homes for Children’s social workers are remarkable people. They are the ones who carry out the hard and complicated task of finding safe and loving families for children.
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Best-selling author, Catherine Isaac, recommends six novels about orphans that have captured the imagination of readers worldwide.
Ukraine’s U-turn on shutting the world’s biggest network of state-run orphanages flies in the face of international law and leaves 100,000 children at risk of torture, sexual violence and trafficking.
We join the call for the Government of Ukraine and the EU to build a right-based child protection system in Ukraine, free from institutions.
On International Day of Persons With Disabilities 2020, we are reminded not to forget in a post-Covid world.
Mark Waddington, CEO at Hope and Homes for Children, reacts to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s decision to cut the UK’s aid budget.
Like so many Nepalese children, Tika had been taken from his family by traffickers. For a high fee, they promised his parents that he would be well cared for and educated in an institution in the city. Instead, he was taken to an orphanage where he survived alone for two years; neglected, abused and exploited to elicit donations from tourists.
New research reveals how unprepared and unsupported young Latin American people feel when they leave orphanages and other kinds of institutional care.
A report from The Lancet confirms that confining children to orphanages seriously impacts their physical and psychological development.
While we do not endorse the Goverment’s decision to merge the DfID and the FCO, the progress the UK has made must not be lost.