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For every two Covid deaths, one child becomes a covid orphan. As countries plan their recovery from Covid, vulnerable children are being forgotten.
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Esmeralda feared that her six children would be put in an orphanage when she took them and fled from her abusive husband. We worked with them to find a home where they would rebuild their lives.
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We are calling on Ukraine to reverse an order which backtracks on previous commitments to end the institutionalisation of children.
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Hope and Homes for Children took a central role in the preperations for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)’s DGD in September 2021. This article reflects on the DGD.
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Better Care Network NL’s Wees Wijs campaign acknowledges voluntourism can be harmful to children in orphanages.
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For care reform to truly flourish at scale, it requires greater coherence, collaboration and to be centre-stage in global initiatives to promote human rights, address poverty and build community resilience. Read our recommendations for the 2021 United Nations Day of General Discussion on Children’s Rights and Alternative Care
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Minela spent the first precious months of her life alone in an orphanage. Her mother, Lana, shares how she lost her daughter and how she fought, with our help, to get her back.
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Today, Olga Kurylenko is a successful Hollywood actress, but having been brought up in a single parent family in Ukraine, she knows only too the risks faced by children growing up in poverty.
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A number of children with disabilities, reunited with their families through our work, are now calling on the UN to recognise orphanages as one of the biggest barriers to progress on creating safe, healthy and inclusive communities.
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Elizabeth Niyongana recounts her search for a young boy’s family, and the day he left the orphanage for good after they were reunited.
