Organizations Working on Children's Care

This page offers a Directory of Organizations working on children’s care issues around the world, at a local, national, regional, and/or global level. The Directory is provided to encourage information sharing and communication between actors working in this sector. 

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La Red Latinoamericana de Egresados de Protección es un grupo de organizaciones de latinoamérica que trabaja para mejorar la vida de todos los adolescentes y jóvenes que viven o vivieron en dispositivos de cuidado estatal. La Red trabaja para visibilizar la situación de los adolescentes y jóvenes que viven o vivieron en dispositivos alternativos de cuidado y para ello: impulsa investigaciones, concreta acciones buscando incidir en políticas públicas e incentiva la participación de los jóvenes fortaleciendo la vinculación entre instituciones y egresados.

The Network was established in 2003 as a joint initiative of non-governmental organizations dedicated to the promotion of children's rights in Latin America. Its mission is to support consolidation of a journalistic culture that strengthens the public visibility of the priority issues of for these segments of the population and contributes to human and social development, equality and equity.

The Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Defense of the Rights of Children and Adolescents is a network of national networks and non-governmental organizations for children and adolescents in the Latin America and Caribbean region that are dedicated to active participation in the defense of the rights of children and adolescents in the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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The Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education (Oxford University), aims to make a difference, through research and its application, to the life chances of children and young people in foster care and those who have experienced care.

RELAF (Latin American Foster Care Network, for the right to community and family- based care for children and adolescents) has promoted and supported the work of NGOs and governments to make the right of every child to live in a family and a community a reality since 2003.

REPSSI is a non-profit organisation working to lessen the devastating social and emotional (psychosocial) impact of poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS among children and youth across East and Southern Africa. 

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Restoring Hope's mission is to care for orphaned children through family-style homes, education and discipleship, empowering future leaders to build healthy communities. Restoring Hope is a ministry of India Christian Ministries and began in 2008 with eight church-based children’s homes and 80 children. Their vision is for holistic restoration of India’s orphaned children for lives of dignity, purpose and transformation of their communities. 

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ReThink Orphanages is a cross sectoral global coalition. It works with key stakeholders in countries in the global north to shift their support (funding, mission, volunteering and tourism) away from orphanages towards strengthening families in the global south. 

Decades of research show that growing up, separated from family, in a residential care institution, such as an orphanage, is harmful to a child's development and well-being. This has led to a global effort to shift away from institutional care towards family-based care.  

The Regional Inter-agency Task Team on Children and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa is a network of organisations working together to influence global, regional and national policy formulation and implementation for children and their families. 

Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Center ran from 2014-2020 in order to provide maximum assistance to all civilians of Donetsk and Luhansk regions affected by the military actions. Their main objective is to assist civilians, who have suffered during the conflict, as efficiently as possible and within the available resources. The Center’s aid must reach firstly those who need it the most (children, elderly and disabled people).