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Around the world, millions of children are growing up in orphanages, or children's homes as they are called in many places. But research has shown that the vast majority of them, actually have families. Still many Americans are giving their money to these institutions, which researchers say are bad for children. In countries like Uganda, those well-intentioned funds have created a whole industry around orphans. For the past year, The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi has looked into Western-sponsored orphanages in Uganda, and seen what can go wrong. This is part one of her…
Elli Oswald, Executive Director of the Faith to Action Initiative, reconsiders the best ways American churches can serve some of the world’s most vulnerable children and honor them as image bearers of God.
Through the Faith to Action Initiative, she advocates for systemic changes that would make orphanages obsolete around the globe.
What You’ll Learn :
- The Research about Orphanages, Family-Based Care and Child Development
- The Risks Involved with Mission Trips to Orphanages
- How Conflicts — Like the War in Ukraine —Affect…
This Podcast series explores the experiences of people who grew up in the care system from all over the world. It is presented by a care-leaver Thomas Mongan and an Advocate Peter Lane. It is produced by Empowering People in Care (EPIC), an Irish Advocacy and Participation Charity. The Podcast aims to raise awareness and fight stigma by giving a platform to people who know the most about the care-system: the people who experienced it first hand.
This episode of the podcast Up/Root features interviews with Stephen Ucembe and Ruth Wacuka who both grew up in "orphanages," despite having parents. "Well-meaning and good-intentioned people like you and I keep children's homes and orphanages in business by volunteering there, patronizing them and contributing money and resources to their work, often rather than supporting vulnerable families," says the podcast host. In this episode, Stephen and Ruth share what it was like to grow up in an institution and what they are doing to help end orphanage tourism - and how listeners can join…
This podcast episode from the Faith to Action Initiative features an interview with Peter Kamau, Founding Partner of Child in Family Focus – Kenya, about his experience growing up in an orphanage. Peter provides insight about why many careleavers struggle after leaving care; the best services to offer careleavers; and resources to help those supporting careleavers.
This brief radio segment from ABC Radio News describes a promising program to reunite children and their parents that will be implemented in South Australia. The program, which has shown success in the state of New South Wales, Australia, "is underpinned by a Social Impact Bond, which relies on socially aware investors to finance programs like this one, which pay dividends based on their success."
World Challenge announced that it will no longer be offering orphanage volunteer placements overseas for students; in this radio interview, Kate van Doore explains why institutional care is harmful to children and how orphanage volunteering perpetuates and contributes to the harm children experience in institutions.
In this Business of Giving podcast episode, Denver Frederick interviews Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan about "Changing the Way We Care," a collaborative project between CRS, Lumos, and Maestral International and semi-finalist for the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change competition.