Home and Homes for Children is a UK-based charity that works to close orphanages and get the children inside them back to family.
Around the world, more than 5.4 million children are confined in orphanages, even though 80% of them have family they could be living with if they had the right support.
Hope and Homes for Children works in more than 10 countries across Europe, Africa and Asia to give children and families the support they need and change the systems that are putting children in institutions.
Their teams are helping families to stay together or be reunited, and creating new families through fostering and adoption, so that every child can grow up in a safe, loving environment where they can thrive.
They are also working with local authorities, governments and international bodies like the UN and EU to improve their policies and end the institutionalisation of children forever.
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Where they operate
Headquarters Location
East Clyffe, Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP3 4LZ
United Kingdom
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
Keeping Families Together – Where war, poverty, discrimination or broken systems put pressure on parents to give up their children, Hope and Homes for Children fight to keep families together. Working with care and compassion, listening and understanding, they let families know there’s someone who cares about their situation, and provide them with the hope and support they need to keep their child within their family home.
Reuniting Families – Millions of parents are longing for the children they have been separated from. And children who could be back at home are lost in the bureaucracy of an orphanage. Through local teams including family tracing experts and specialist social workers, Hope and Homes for Children and their partners reconnect children with their loved ones. And once children are reunited, they stay by their side to help them adapt to their new life together.
Creating New Families – Hope and Homes for Children supports children whose birth families can’t look after them or keep them safe, or those who have no family at all. They work with individuals and authorities to find, train and support foster or adoptive parents: adults who they know from experience will love, protect and give security to a child. With their social workers, psychologists and educationalists by their side, new parents can give children the love they need to grow up and thrive in life.
Closing orphanages - Closing an orphanage for good is an extremely complex process that can take many years to complete. Hope and Homes for Children teams work with a range of local and national authorities and organisations - including local councils, community leaders, medical professionals and child protection authorities - in order to achieve that life-changing moment when an orphanage is closed for good and the children once confined within it are instead Back to Family.
Advocating for change - Many governments and regional authorities still use the institutionalisation of children as a childcare solution. By making them aware of the immense harm that placing children in institutions does, and showing the positive impacts that family-based care brings, Hope and Home for Children’s advocacy team is working to change attitudes and reform child care practices on both a national and international level.
HHC Advisory Services - drawing on their global operational delivery and partnering experience, Hope and Homes for Children provides a compelling package of technical support services to governments, UN agencies, local and international NGOs in other countries around the world. They work to bring about the transition of children’s care and protection systems to family-care. They support local initiatives, under local leadership and capability. Their focus is on locally owned, sustainable solutions and impact at scale. They are passionate about protecting the rights of all children, to see them brought up in safe, loving, nurturing families.
Organization Resources
This call to action - issued by a coalition of child rights organisations including Hope and Homes for Children, Lumos, Eurochild, and SOS Children's Villages - calls on the Ukrainian government and the European Union to "act before it is too late to protect the rights and future of some of the most forgotten and left behind children."
The purpose of the research is to generate learning and recommendations to develop public policies to support the transition of adolescents and youth from the alternative care system to autonomous life in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Este documento presenta 10 principios para ayudar a niños/as y familias vulnerables durante la pandemia de COVID-19.
This call to action, endorsed by several organizations, calls on European governments and European Union institutions to reinforce actions to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 crisis. It outlines the main challenges for vulnerable children and families, and what the EU and European governments can do to address these challenges.
El presente informe reúne los hallazgos principales de una investigación de carácter exploratorio-descriptivo que ha sido desarrollada en seis países de la región (Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, México y Perú). El objetivo fue documentar y analizar las políticas, estrategias y acciones desarrolladas para promover y acompañar la transición de adolescentes desde el sistema de cuidados alternativos hacia la vida autónoma.
En este informe se presentan los resultados de la investigación llevada adelante en Argentina que tuvo por objetivo construir información sobre las principales políticas, medidas y acciones que se desarrollan a nivel regional orientadas a acompañar el egreso de adolescentes y jóvenes del sistema del cuidados alternativos e indagar respecto de su eficacia, efectividad, sostenibilidad y adecuación a un enfoque de derechos.
En este informe se presentan los resultados de la investigación llevada adelante en Perú que tuvo por objetivo construir información sobre las principales políticas, medidas y acciones que se desarrollan a nivel regional orientadas a acompañar el egreso de adolescentes y jóvenes del sistema de cuidados alternativos e indagar respecto de su eficacia, efectividad, sostenibilidad y adecuación a un enfoque de derechos.
En este informe se presentan los resultados de la investigación llevada adelante en México que tuvo por objetivo construir información sobre las principales políticas, medidas y acciones que se desarrollan a nivel regional orientadas a acompañar el egreso de adolescentes y jóvenes del sistema de cuidados alternativos e indagar respecto de su eficacia, efectividad, sostenibilidad y adecuación a un enfoque de derechos.
Este relatório apresenta os resultados da pesquisa realizada no Brasil pelo Instituto Fazendo História com objetivo construir informações sobre as principais políticas, medidas e ações desenvolvidas no nível regional, visando acompanhar a saída de adolescentes e jovens do sistema de cuidados alternativos e indagar a sua eficácia, efetividade, sustentabilidade e adaptação a uma abordagem de direitos.
En este informe se presentan los resultados de la investigación llevada adelante en Colombia que tuvo por objetivo construir información sobre las principales políticas, medidas y acciones que se desarrollan a nivel regional orientadas a acompañar el egreso de adolescentes y jóvenes del sistema de cuidados alternativos e indagar respecto de su eficacia, efectividad, sostenibilidad y adecuación a un enfoque de derechos.
