This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post highlights what needs to change in international volunteering, global social service learning, and the ways we teach global citizenship.

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post asks readers to support organizations that help families stay together and are helping to put an end to trafficking.

Family for Every Child is seeking a Senior Programme Officer to support the effective delivery of their projects. 

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post describes research on on mission trips to Uganda and the money spent on these missions, “ money that could have been put towards much needed welfare reforms and social services.”

This article from the BBC features a series of photos of girls around the world aged 15 and younger who are mothers, and their stories.

This document includes a list of action items intended to better support community caregivers responsible for children affected by HIV.

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post outlines the reasons orphanage volunteering can be disastrous and how people can help orphaned and vulnerable children in a meaningful way.

Family for Every Child is looking for a Programme Support Officer to join its team and to support grant management and logistics and administration for Family for Every Child’s projects and programmes.

Esta entrada de blog es una parte de la serie de artículos de la Iniciativa de Better Volunteering Better Care que están dirigidos a la sensibilización sobre las cuestiones de voluntario en orfanatos. En la entrada, Dur Montoya describe su experiencia de ser voluntaria en un orfanato falso, “el peor error de mi vida.”

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post explains how so-called “orphanages” are used as money-making operations and how children who are separated from their families to live in these institutions suffer.