Children thrive in families

Your gift of £25 can support the care of one child with a foster family. 

Even the ‘best’ orphanages suffer from this poor staff-to-child ratio. The lack of interaction, comfort, and stimulation experienced by children means that their development is tragically stunted.

It is believed that for every 3 months a young child spends in an orphanage, they can lose roughly one month of brain development.

As well as mental and emotional healing, a family’s love and attention often leads to big improvements in medical conditions and disabilities. Children raised in families are far more likely to grow into happy, confident adults, able to participate fully in society.

Our strategy hinges on empowering the care staff of government-run orphanages, giving them the skills to become family placement workers. And that is where your donation comes in. It provides the bridge to help move a child out of the orphanage and cover the costs of the placement worker to be trained.

Children will never choose an orphanage over a family. As one little boy in Thailand told us, “Even if you give me a million baht (dollars), I will not leave my family and go back to the orphanage.”

Your gift today helps to make sure that he and others like him have the proper system in place so that they can be moved to loving families.