Homecoming

Children thrive in families, not orphanages. Homecoming is a global movement working to see the 5.4 million children currently living in orphanages come home to loving families - through family reunification, kinship care, fostering or local adoption. https://buff.ly/2YRHuMF

'I didn’t want to send her away, but life was very difficult for us,' recalls Tabita’s mum. Tabita’s story sheds light on the challenges faced by millions of children living in orphanages globally. Against a backdrop of poverty, orphanages can become magnets that attract families to surrender their children into them. Homecoming is a coalition of organisations that believe children thrive in families. Read the full Evangelical Alliance article: https://buff.ly/o5272gO

More than 80% of children in orphanages have a living parent. Imagine if these children were reunited with their families? Join our learning journey today and spend 6 weeks, throughout Lent, to deepen your understanding of the realities and challenges of orphanages abroad and take a closer look at alternative ways to care for vulnerable children. You'll receive one email a week filled with insights and opportunities for action, delivered straight into your inbox. Sign up now: https://buff.ly/2YRHuMF

Against a backdrop of poverty, orphanages can become magnets that attract families to surrender their children into them. We believe that children belong in families, not institutions, and so we want to see families supported and communities strengthened so that vulnerable children can thrive in the love and commitment of a family for life. From tomorrow, you'll receive one email a week filled with insights and opportunities for action, delivered straight into your inbox. Sign up today to our 6-week learning journey throughout Lent. https://buff.ly/2YC2fRo

Become part of the global movement to see children come home to family. Sign up today to this series of 6 emails filled with insights and opportunities for action. https://buff.ly/2YRHuMF

Homecoming is a coalition of organisations that believe children thrive in families. Homecoming exists to inspire and equip the church in the UK and Ireland to support family strengthening, reunification, kinship care, fostering and local adoption as a healthier alternative to orphanages. From next Tuesday, you'll receive one email a week filled with insights and opportunities for action, delivered straight into your inbox. Sign up today to our 6-week learning journey throughout Lent. https://buff.ly/2YC2fRo #HomecomingProject #childrenthriveinfamilies

Historically, orphanages have been a long-standing form of caring for children globally, but a growing body of academic studies demonstrate the adverse impact of long-term institutional care on children’s development, life expectancy and outcomes. Imagine if every child had the chance to flourish in a family. Find out more on the Homecoming website: https://buff.ly/2YRHuMF

More than 80% of children in orphanages have a living parent. And most have other family members too - siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles. But against a backdrop of poverty, orphanages can become magnets that attract families to surrender their children into them. Join our learning journey to deepen your understanding of the realities and challenges of orphanages abroad and take a closer look at alternative ways to care for vulnerable children. Sign up here: https://buff.ly/2YRHuMF #HomecomingProject #childrenthriveinfamilies

I love it when a project provokes my own thinking. Throughout working on this campaign for Homecoming I have had my own views and preconceptions of how orphanages operate around the world challenged and changed. I didn't know that more than 80% of children in orphanages around the world have a living parent. Or that for every three months a young child spends in an orphanage, they can lose a month of physical and intellectual development. That is why its been a joy to collaborate with the fantastic team of Tony Lewry, Kitty Hardyman, Sophie Tresidder, and Esther Smith-Adams (Along with many other partners and voices) to create this awareness campaign and learning journey and help share some things to change the narrative. If you want to learn about the global orphanage system, and how we can provide a better alternative that allows children to thrive in families join us on the lent learning journey. https://lnkd.in/d2APFU4u

'No child should ever have to experience what I did. We need to defend and protect families from separation.' Max shares his story of separation from family, growing up in an orphanage and living with the consequences as an adult. He speaks of the importance of family rather than institutional care, and dreams of a world where we can prevent families from separating, and bringing them safely back together where they have been separated. Together, we can change the story for others. Together, we can help children come home. Join our global movement to see families reunited. Sign up to our 6 week email journey to learn more, link in our bio. Home for Good (UK) Tearfund Ireland Martin James Foundation https://lnkd.in/eNF4W4cF?