Five years ago, Child's i Foundation founder Lucy Buck set up a 25-bed 'transitional facility' to prove it was possible to place children in need of care into permanent families. Childs' i Foundation piloted an 'emergency care pilot' to see if there was a viable family-based alternative for children under 3 years old instead of an orphanage. The difference in the children's development was so stark the organisation closed the babies' home and set up an 8-bed emergency centre for children.