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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The organization was created by a group of dedicated Kenyan women who used their resources to initiate community response to challenges facing rural communities at a time when there was no structured response at the national or community levels. WEMIHS uses a rights based approach to ensure that children’s rights, health and development needs are met, especially for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) and adolescent girls.

Through local partners in ten countries they work on prevention of family disintegration, return to biological family and foster family in the native country. If there are no possibilities for a child to grow up in a secure family in her or his native country, they offer intercountry adoption services.

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Who Cares? Scotland is a national voluntary organisation that provides a range of advocacy, advice and support services across Scotland for children and young people with experience of care up to the age of 25. Who Cares? Scotland also consults young people with care experience to influence change at both the community and national levels. 

Whole Child International works across a country's system of care to improve outcomes for vulnerable children. Whole Child International is devoted to improving the lives of orphaned, abandoned, abused, and neglected children worldwide. They work to restructure existing children’s institutions to focus on children’s emotional needs, ultimately creating the possibility for healthy integration into society.

Women & Men Against Child Abuse is a non-profit Child Protection Organisation committed to fighting for the rights of the child and to end the abuse of children in South Africa, through a multifaceted, dynamic and aggressive offensive against any form of abuse and gender violence.

All children have a right to a childhood, to safety, happiness, playfulness, and curiosity in life. All children have the right to grow up and develop socially and intellectually. World Childhood Foundation works to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. They support and implement over 100 projects around the world, assisting children who are at risk of or are victims of abuse, children who are in alternative care, street children, and families at risk.

The World Family Organization – WFO – is an International Organization which has as main objective to represent Families of the world at all levels, to defend their interests and to act with them and for them vis a vis governments and the international community.

With respect to the United Nations and the consultative process, the Organization shall act as the link between both the aspirations and achievements of the families and the work done for them at the level of the United Nations.

World Hope International works throughout the world on issues of trafficking, gender-based violence, education, sanitation and clean water, and more. Since 2016 World Hope International (WHI) in Cambodia has been working with support from the UN Trust fund to End Violence Against Women and in partnership with government and international actors to build local capacity to more effectively respond to violence against women and girls.

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World Orphans is a Christian faith-based organization that equips, inspires, and mobilizes the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. Their Home Based Care Program (HBC) is a family-based program that both addresses and prevents the rise of the orphan population by caring for children in a home environment. Administered through their Church Partnership model, World Orphans partners US churches with international churches that each holistically care for 20 orphaned and vulnerable children.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. This includes support for children living outside parental care.

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