This UNICEF Bosnia and Herzegovina story follows the journey of foster care as a pathway to belonging for children who cannot live with their biological families, focusing on how stable, family-based care can transform a child’s sense of safety, identity, and future. Through personal testimonies from foster parents, young people with lived experience, and child protection professionals, it highlights how children often arrive in foster care after experiences of institutional living or family separation, and how consistent care and emotional support can help them recover, build trust, and thrive. The article also reflects broader efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina to shift child protection systems away from institutional care and toward strengthening foster care and community-based alternatives, emphasizing that every child benefits most from growing up in a family environment.