Honduras

As in years past, some recipients of CNN’s 2015 Heroes Awards included “ill-advised but well-meaning” people who have been involved in building and operating orphanages in developing countries. By including those running orphanages among its recipients, CNN is perpetuating the incorrect idea that orphanages are a safe place for children. 

For Our Children Foundation will host a conference on 15 January 2016 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

RISE Learning Network, an organization that promotes learning on recovery and reintegration approaches that improve outcomes for children and adolescents affected by sexual exploitation, will be hosting a webinar on 14 January 2016 from

This article describes growing skepticism around the value of "voluntourists" for local communities around the work, and many NGOs are questioning the unregulated industry that brings many young, unqualified westerners to developing countries. Often, volunteers are ineffective in providing help to communities, and sometimes can even pose danger to the community members or themselves.

This study presents findings from the first known population-based estimation of separation in an emergency setting.

This Regional Kinship Care Album is a compilation of the 3 country albums (Kenya, Ethiopia and Zanzibar) bringing together information from children, young people and adults collected during the Kinship Care Research that took place in each of the three countries from late 2013 through 2014. 

The objective of this study was to develop and test an instrument to measure self-representation of youths in residential care in Portugal. 

This article describes how many children who were put up for adoption as "orphans" in countries around the world, such as Ethiopia and Haiti, were actually not orphans, and how these incidences of "adoption corruption" have helped to change the direction of a powerful adoption movement among U.S. evangelicals. In previous years, international adoption had been a preeminent evangelical social cause in the United States, grounded in the idea of an "orphan crisis" affecting 143 to 210 million children around the world, including some that lived with one parent or extended family in poor conditions. 

This report is a case study of alternative child care in Indonesia. Research was conducted that found that with an estimate of 8,000 institutional facilities servicing 500,000 children, Indonesia was overly reliant on institutional care.

This short video by GHR presents information on the Children in Familes program with a focus on Cambodia. GHR's grantees are supporting child protection interventions that strengthen families in order to prevention separation of children from their families.