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OrphanCare aims to end institutional care and find permanent family-based care solutions to children in Malaysia through deinstitutionalisation, a multitude of community-based services, and advocacy.
One Sky was conceived in 2012 in the Thai-Burma border town of Sankhlaburi, and became a fully registered Thai NGO in June 2013. The founders, Wiwat Thanapanya and Andy Lillicrap, saw a huge gap in essential services for large numbers of vulnerable children and their families. One Sky was created to bring change to services available to vulnerable children in Sangkhlaburi, by promoting a new way of working to support them. They aim to promote professionalism, uphold the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), encourage new ideas and connect…
PUSKAPA works to help policy makers improve children's access to health, education, justice, and social care in Indonesia. PUSKAPA is composed of an inter-disciplinary team of academics and practitioners from Indonesia and abroad. They pursue their goals through three interrelated set of activities: Research, Policy Advocacy, and Capacity Building.
FI is an NGO that focuses on children’s empowerment in South East Asia and provides social services to marginalized urban children and families. They focus on several issues including child migration and child refugees, family separation, and more. FI runs the ChildSafe International initiative which combines advocacy and training to spread awareness about risks that marginalized children face, including campaigns to promote ethical volunteerism and tourism linked to children in orphanages.
Save the Children Indonesia has committed to changing forever the way the world treats children. They believe this generation has the unique opportunity to stop children dying from preventable causes, or being denied a basic education or consigned to orphanages. To achieve this change, Save the Children Indonesia has developed Signature Programs that are evidence-based, replicable, and scalable – programs that prove how, working with others, they can generate…
Muhammadiyah is devoted to social and educational activities that serve those living in poverty and children who are orphaned in Indonesia. In particular, their social program (MPS) seeks to find alternatives to residential care and new methods to promote family-based care.
Muhammadiyah is a member of Family for Every Child.
Global Child Advocates began in 2008, in response to a few children working on the streets in Thailand, where young girls and boys begged at night or dug through the trash for recyclables to sell. If they did not earn enough money each day, they were ‘beaten’. We responded by opening a ‘Safe house’ for these children, which was always meant to provide short-term care. Yet, many children did not have a safe family and foster care did not exist so over the years, it became long term. In offering care for children in such a vulnerable place, more children were referred to GCA, which led to…
Care for Children partners with governments in Asia to help create a positive alternative to institutional care through local family-based care for disadvantaged children. Care For Children’s vision is to see a million children moved from institutional care into families.
In China, Care for Children helped build up family-based care a nationally recognised practice. Care for Children is also working to build robust models of best practice in family-based care that will serve as beacons for the nation.
Their Thailand project is working alongside the…
Friends International, with support from UNICEF, has launched its “Think Before Visiting” campaign. The campaign is aimed at partnering with tourists to end “orphanage tourism” in Cambodia. The campaign’s website provides information and advice to tourists and volunteers, as well as a range of useful resources on transforming orphanage tourism.