In this episode of BBC World Service Radio, Shannon Sennefield of Catholic Relief Services describes the importance of the 'Changing the Way We Care' project, a semi-finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change grant. The MacArthur Foundation narrowed down their $100 million dollar grant proposals to 8 finalists and the BBC explored each of these project. At about fourteen minutes into this episode, host Ed Butler introduces Changing the Way We Care and hears about the proposal to end the institutionalization of children.
Sennefield describes how parents are often put into the position of having to make the difficult decision to place their child in an orphanage because they lack the resources to care for their children in the home, due to poverty and other factors. She also highlights the financial incentive of orphanages to keep recruiting children and stay in business.