Hope and Homes for Children and 17 other organisations ready to take action over the EU member states’ lack of commitment to the EU strategy on the Rights of the Child.
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Esmeralda feared that her six children would be put in an orphanage when she took them and fled from her abusive husband. We worked with them to find a home where they would rebuild their lives.
We are calling on Ukraine to reverse an order which backtracks on previous commitments to end the institutionalisation of children.
Better Care Network NL’s Wees Wijs campaign acknowledges voluntourism can be harmful to children in orphanages.
Minela spent the first precious months of her life alone in an orphanage. Her mother, Lana, shares how she lost her daughter and how she fought, with our help, to get her back.
Today, Olga Kurylenko is a successful Hollywood actress, but having been brought up in a single parent family in Ukraine, she knows only too the risks faced by children growing up in poverty.
Alongside 23 organisations, we outline our joint recommendations for how to make this Strategy a success for all children.
Today, the EU is meeting with the Government of Ukraine to discuss the human rights situation in the country. We are urgently asking the EU to push the Ukrainian government to take action to protect the rights and future of Ukraine’s hidden children in institutions. Ukraine has one of highest institutionalisation rates At least 1.3% […]
Hope and Homes for Children’s founder, Mark Cook, and orphanage survivor, Alexandra Smart, have appeared on BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion programme to discuss their experiences inside the abusive network of orphanages discovered in Romania in 1990.
Here Alexandra talks about her remarkable journey, and why she won’t rest until every orphanage on Earth is shut.
