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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.

80% of children in orphanages have a living parent.

Children thrive in families, not orphanages.

There's 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.

Children thrive in families, not orphanages.

Every child needs their own homecoming story and they need you to play your part.

The money and support that westerners give may be unwittingly fuelling the orphanage system. Find out more by signing up to our Homecoming email journey.

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Every child needs their own homecoming story and they need you to play your part.

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Robert Glover, CEO, Care for Children

Care for Children works with governments in Asia to develop strategic, sustainable child welfare reforms that offer orphan children safe good families. We stand with Home for Good as we believe that God ordained the family as a safe place that children can thrive through nurture, stimulation and love. The certainty of unconditional love in family membership provides Biblical anchorage and the reassurance of practical and emotional support throughout life.

Robert Glover, CEO, Care for Children

Rebecca Smith, Senior Child Protection Adviser, Save the Children UK

Save the Children works in 118 countries worldwide. In so many of these contexts, church members and religious leaders play an incredibly important role in the care and protection of children. We are so pleased that Home for Good is launching this campaign as we hope it’s one of many steps needed to work together to help children remain in safe and loving families.

Rebecca Smith, Senior Child Protection Adviser, Save the Children UK

Justine Williams, Better Care Network

We're delighted to have supported Home for Good with the development of the Homecoming campaign. The UK Christian faith community can make a huge difference to the lives of children in low- and middle-income countries by helping them to grow up in loving, caring families.

Justine Williams, Better Care Network

Alex Christopoulos, Deputy CEO, Lumos

Every child needs a family. Led by Home for Good, Homecoming is a vital campaign seeking to harness the generosity, care and commitment of Christians in the UK to be a key part of a global movement to help support children, whatever their circumstances, to live in loving, safe and caring families. Lumos works with partners to transform care systems to help keep children in families, and fully supports Home for Good’s campaign.

Alex Christopoulos, Deputy CEO, Lumos

Mark Waddington, Chief Executive, Hope and Homes for Children

Home for Good is one of the most important organisations. Why? Because it believes in family in all its forms. The community of churches that Home for Good works with will be breaking new ground with this campaign because of their belief that family is what children need to grow and develop. Hope and Homes for Children is a leading charity in transforming national childcare and reform, and we fully endorse the latest campaign of our friends at Home for Good.

Mark Waddington, Chief Executive, Hope and Homes for Children

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