Haitian Families First (HFF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to putting family first in Haiti. Poverty, crisis, and trauma has forced more than 30,000 children to be placed in orphanages. When the organization's founders Jamie and Ali first went to Haiti in 2002, they volunteered in an orphanage to help these vulnerable children. They soon realized how unnecessary these institutions were, as they were actually separating loving families.
HAQ: Centre for Child Rights works towards the recognition, promotion and protection of rights of all children. It aims to look at the child in an integrated manner within the framework of the Constitution of India, and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which India ratified in 1992, and contribute to the building of an environment where every child’s rights are recognised and promoted without discrimination.
Based in Ankara, Turkey, Hayat Sende Derneği seeks to confront stigmatization and discrimination against children and youth under legal protection in Turkey through advocacy campaigns, lobbying, education and training, and social entrepreneurship and innovation projects. Hayat Sende has built a platform that offers youth from state institutions and other disadvantaged backgrounds a myriad of training and experience opportunities to develop their professional and life skills. Hayat Sende envisions a world in which children under legal protection live in loving and caring families.
Heartline Ministries, a Christian faith-based organization, was founded in 2000 to strengthen Haitian families and prevent children from becoming orphans. Today, Heartline Ministries holistically addresses the root causes of orphanhood and extreme material poverty through multiple ministries with Haitian children and their families.
Heaven’s Family was founded in 2002 by David and Becky Servant. Heaven’s Family actually began as a teaching ministry directed towards pastors and Christian leaders living in developing nations. Today, Heaven’s Family is increasingly invested in helping catalyze disciple-making movements among unreached people groups.
Dedicated to ensuring that early childhood systems maximize the potential of all young children, the Help Me Grow National Center is a program of the Office for Community Child Health at Connecticut Children’s in Hartford, Connecticut. The Help Me Grow National Center serves as a national resource to support the implementation of Help Me Grow systems throughout the USA. The nation’s first Help Me Grow system launched in Hartford, CT, in 1997. Based on the strength of these results and the targeted advocacy efforts of founding director Dr.
In 2003, the Christian nonprofit organization Helping Children Worldwide was formed to provide financial and strategic support to the Child Rescue Centre, an organization serving vulnerable children and youth in Sierra Leone. Helping Children Worldwide's mission is to transform communities and serve vulnerable children and families through support for education, health care, and spiritual mentoring.
The research project, called Hestia after the Greek goddess of home and family, aims to discover the nature and impact of variations in child protection systems through a comparison of three different welfare states. The research will compare:
THIS (The Himalayan Innovative Society) was established in January 2003 by local people from the area that THIS serves: Humla district and the Mid-western region of Nepal. Their motive is to help the local deprived communities in the areas of education, health, tourism, income generation, culture and heritage preservation and human rights especially women and children’s rights.
Himaya was founded in 2008 and has continued to grow, responding to child protection needs on a national level.