Our campaign #HelpingNotHelping challenges peoples attitudes to volunteering in orphanages, and ultimately end it. Help us take action.
Across the world an estimated 5.4 million children are living in orphanages and other institutions, and as a result, they are outside the care of a loving family. Most of these children have families that could look after them with the right support. Help us bring them home.
All Children Count, But Not All Are Counted
World leaders agreed that the new development agenda outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) would “leave no one behind”. Yet, as it stands, the new Goals will leave children living without parents and outside families, in institutions or orphanages, very far behind.
Read about the campaign#HelpingNotHelping
Evidence shows that a regular turnover of volunteers and visitors can harm a child’s development and, in some cases, children are trafficked to orphanages to raise profits from donations and visitors. Find out more about campaign and what you can do to take action.
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