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.
MEPs formally recognise trafficking links to institutionalisation in the EU Anti-Trafficking directive
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read part 1 in a series of 3 blog posts by Regional Advocacy Manager Stephen Ucembe. Here he explores voluntourism and how orphanages pretend to help children.
How volunteering in an orphanage could be hurting the people you’re there to help.
Andrii* was traumatised, fixated and anxious, but his mum couldn’t access any of the care he needed. Until we started to support them.
Wendy has supported Hope and Homes for Children for 25 years. Now, her granddaughter Grace, 11, is continuing the tradition.
