Tehila is an international NGO and social enterprise based in Zambia and the UK. Our vision is to see a world in which children are safe, thriving and celebrated. We walk alongside children, churches, organisations and communities on their journey to embed a culture of safeguarding children within their context. Tehila also engages with communities to provide accessible and affordable paralegal and therapeutic support services to children who have experienced trauma. Tehila was involved in establishing the Embrace Project Zambia, which advocates for family-based care within churches in Zambia. We recognise that a loving family was designed by God as the best place for children to grow and thrive. Tehila uses family-strengthening models of social work, through the facilitation of parenting courses and family therapeutic support. Partnering with Homecoming reflects our passion and commitment to see children living in safe and loving families.

Tehila

Viva is a global children charity that supports 42 partner networks of churches and organisations in 26 countries to work together to make a bigger, better and longer-lasting impact in the lives of children. We are committed to enabling family-based care and are part of the Homecoming Project because we want to see the impact of donors and volunteers increase – and supporting family-based care is one way this can happen.

Viva Network

Safe Families train and support volunteers to support children and families to thrive, preventing many children going into care. But when some children do, sadly, need to go into the care system, Home for Good focus on ensuring there are enough safe and nurturing homes for every child and young person that needs one. We both do this with and through the local church. Safe Families and Home for Good are the host organisation for the Homecoming Project and provide expertise and infrastructure support.

Home for Good & Safe Families

SFAC are a children’s charity, but they don’t work with children. Instead, they equip adults all over the world so the children they care for thrive. SFAC is proud to be part of Homecoming and turning good intentions into good practice by supporting those wanting the best for children. SFAC's vision is for children to thrive in a safe environment that meets their needs, where they feel they belong. The best place for this is their family, or a family in their community assessed as safe and able to care for them when their own family is unable to do so.

SFAC

Tearfund Ireland is a Christian, international relief and development organisation with a vision for flourishing communities free from poverty and injustice. Recognising the harmful impact volunteering in orphanages and institutional care has on the lives of vulnerable children, we partner with the Homecoming Project so more children will thrive in safe and nurturing families.

Tearfund Ireland

The vision of WWO is, for every child to grow up in a loving and caring family, either the birth family or a foster or adoptive family, to give the child the love and security it needs. WWO helps churches, NGOs and governments in different countries to turn this vision into reality. Children in orphanages don't experience family, but are often cared for by short-term volunteers, which hurts their healthy development. WWO is therefore partnering with the Homecoming project to offer a better solution.

WWO

Just Love equips students and supports graduates to pursue justice in the way of Jesus with their whole lives. We 're committed to supporting our movement to think deeply and critically about supporting the thriving of children globally and to champion family based care through their actions.

Just Love

SAFE International is dedicated to safeguarding children and transforming communities by fostering safe, nurturing environments. Partnering with the Homecoming Project, we address the severe impact of unsuitable placements. By empowering families, we guarantee stable, supportive settings crucial for children’s enduring well-being and stability.

SAFE International

The mission of Hope and Homes for Children is to serve as a catalyst for the global elimination of institutional care of children. We have over 30 years of experience transforming the lives of children, strengthening families and supporting child-care systems change in countries around the globe. We currently support communities and partners in ten countries in Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe. The Homecoming initiative is a brilliant opportunity for the Christian community in the UK to be a leading light powering the return of children caught up in residential institutions back to safe and loving families. Hope and Homes for Children is delighted to provide technical advisory support to Homecoming and to help highlight the voices of children and young people who have lived experience of these institutions.

Hope and Homes

Faith to Action promotes best practices in the care of orphaned and vulnerable children among the U.S. Christian community and beyond, upholding the vital importance of family in the life of every child. We are thrilled to have partners like Homecoming working tirelessly to see every child cared for in loving, safe families.

Faith to Action

Thirtyone:eight is an independent Christian charity which helps to protect vulnerable people from abuse. We want to see a world where every child and adult can feel, and be, safe. We believe that children being embedded into a family that loves and nurtures them is fundamental to safety and well-being, which is why are involved in the Homecoming project.

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