ARK is an international charity whose purpose is to transform children’s lives. Founded in 2002 by a group of leaders in the alternative investment industry, pooling their skills and resources to improve the life chances of children, ARK delivers high social returns on philanthropic investment and has programs focused particularly on children in care.
http://www.arkonline.org/children-in-care/
Amani Children’s Home
Amani Children’s Home is dedicated to the protection of Tanzania’s most vulnerable population: street-children and AIDS orphans. It is estimated that there are 2.5 million orphaned children in Tanzania.
www.amanikids.org/reuniting-families
Asociación Familia y Esperanza
The Family and Hope Association is a nonprofit civic association that is nonpartisan or religious. Formed by a group of Salvadorans sensitive to the needs of children and adolescents who have been, for various reasons, separated from their parents and other biological family members.
www.familiayesperanza.org/
The Bethany Christian Services
Formed in 1944, Bethany Christian Services is a non-profit, organization that provides adoption and orphan care services through a national network of over 80 locations and is licensed in more than 30 U.S. states. The agency’s areas of expertise include family preservation, home-based social services, best-practice child trauma counseling, pregnancy counseling, youth life skills training, foster care, and adoption. With a strong fiscal history and over 1,000 staff, Bethany Christian Services initiates and maintains innovative child-focused programming both nationally and internationally and in accordance with accepted conventions, standards of care, and best practices.
http://www.bethany.org/
The Better Care Network
The Better Care Network brings together organizations and individuals concerned about children without adequate family care. It is committed to reducing instances of separation and abandonment; reuniting children with their families; increasing, strengthening and supporting family and community based care options; establishing international and national standards for all forms of care for children without adequate family care; and ensuring that residential institutions are used in a very limited manner.
www.crin.org/bcn/about.asp
The Centre for Social Justice
The Centre for Social Justice is an independent think tank putting social justice, including children and family issues, at the heart of British politics.
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Agency (CEOP)
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children. It is part of UK policing and very much about tracking and bringing offenders to account either directly or in partnership with local and international forces.
www.ceop.gov.uk/
Children and Families Across Borders
CFAB promotes and protects the rights and welfare of children and vulnerable adults across international borders. Through its international network of agencies, it assists people who have been separated from family members as a consequence of divorce, migration, seeking asylum, trafficking and abduction, as well as other vulnerable individuals for whom there are protection concerns.
hwww.cfab.uk.net/
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)
Funds projects to improve the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries.
http://www.ciff.org/impact-area-insights/care-environment.html
Christian Alliance for Orphans
The Christian Alliance for Orphans unites orphan-serving organizations and churches to ignite passion and build excellence for Christ-honoring orphan care, foster youth and adoption ministry.
http://www.christian-alliance-for-orphans.org/
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation dedicated to raising awareness about the millions of children around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic right of a family.
www.ccainstitute.org/
EveryChild
UK based charity that works to provide children in developing countries with healthcare, education, and family support through sponsorship programmes.
www.everychild.org.uk/
Global Action for Children (GAC)
Global Action for Children generates awareness, policies and funding so every child has the chance to grow up safe and healthy.
http://www.globalactionforchildren.org/
Holt International Children’s Services
Holt International Children's Services is dedicated to carrying out God's plan for every child to have a permanent, loving family.
http://www.holtinternational.org/
Hope and Homes for Children
Hope and Homes for Children aims to give hope to the poorest children in the world – those who are orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable – by enabling them to grow up within the love of a family and the security of a home, so that they can fulfil their potential. The organisation’s vision is a world where every child feels loved.
http://www.hopeandhomes.org/aboutus/index.html
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems.
www.ijm.org/
The International Social Service
The International Social Service (ISS) helps individuals, children and families confronted with social problems involving two, or more, countries as a consequence of international migration or displacement. As an international not-for-profit organisation, it is active in around 140 countries through a network of national branches, affiliated bureaus and correspondents (link toward illustrative map). Each year, it provides services to more than 50’000 persons throughout the world each year.
www.iss-ssi.org/2009/index.php?id=1
Oasis (Overseas Adoptions Support and Information Service)
OASIS is UK based parent to parent support group for families at all stages of the inter-country adoption process. We have over 1,000 members comprised of those with adult children through to those just beginning to explore the process.
http://www.adoptionoverseas.org/default.aspx
The Orphan Institute
The Orphan Institute is a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to assist governments with their child welfare responsibilities by advocating for orphans to have a permanent family.
www.orphaninstitute.org/
Puerta al Mundo
Working in collaboration with the local church, Puerta al Mundo helps equip, train, and send Hondurans to work in some of the poorest and most destitute areas of the world.
www.orphaninstitute.org/
Shepherd’s Keep
Shepherd's Keep is a home for abandoned babies, HIV positive or not, from birth to six months old.
http://www.shepherdskeep.org.za/index.htm
Terre des Hommes International Federation
The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination. To this end the organisations develop and implement projects designed to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children in their own environment (including families and communities).
http://www.terredeshommes.org/index.php?page=abo&lang=en
VIVA Network
Viva works in partnership with local networks to give vulnerable children around the world the chance of a happier, healthier, and brighter future, free from deprivation, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. Viva has a special area of focus on continuum of care for children without families.
www.viva.org/ Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)
ARK is an international charity whose purpose is to transform children’s lives. Founded in 2002 by a group of leaders in the alternative investment industry, pooling their skills and resources to improve the life chances of children, ARK delivers high social returns on philanthropic investment and has programs focused particularly on children in care.
Amani Children’s Home is dedicated to the protection of Tanzania’s most vulnerable population: street-children and AIDS orphans. It is estimated that there are 2.5 million orphaned children in Tanzania.
The Family and Hope Association is an El Salvador based nonprofit civic association. Formed by a group of Salvadorans sensitive to the needs of children and adolescents who have been, for various reasons, separated from their parents and other biological family members.
Formed in 1944, Bethany Christian Services is a non-profit, organization that provides adoption and orphan care services through a national network. With a strong fiscal history and over 1,000 staff, Bethany Christian Services initiates and maintains innovative child-focused programming both nationally and internationally and in accordance with accepted conventions, standards of care, and best practices.
The Better Care Network brings together organizations and individuals concerned about children without adequate family care. It is committed to reducing instances of separation and abandonment; reuniting children with their families; increasing, strengthening and supporting family and community based care options; establishing international and national standards for all forms of care for children without adequate family care; and ensuring that residential institutions are used in a very limited manner.
The Centre for Social Justice is a United Kingdom based, independent think tank putting social justice, including children and family issues, at the heart of British politics.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children. The CEOP is part of UK policing and focuses on tracking and bringing offenders to account, either directly or in partnership with local and international forces.
CFAB is a United Kingdom based organisation which promotes and protects the rights and welfare of children and vulnerable adults across international borders. Through its international network of agencies, it assists people who have been separated from family members as a consequence of divorce, migration, seeking asylum, trafficking and abduction, as well as other vulnerable individuals for whom there are protection concerns.
CIFF funds projects to improve the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries.
The Christian Alliance for Orphans unites orphan-serving organizations and churches to ignite passion and build excellence for Christ-honoring orphan care, foster youth and adoption ministry.
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute is a United States based nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation dedicated to raising awareness about the millions of children around the world in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes and to eliminating the barriers that hinder these children from realizing their basic right of a family.
EveryChild is a United Kingdom based charity that works to provide children in developing countries with healthcare, education, and family support through sponsorship programmes.
Global Action for Children generates awareness, policies and funding so every child has the chance to grow up safe and healthy.
Holt International Children's Services is dedicated to carrying out God's plan for every child to have a permanent, loving family.
Hope and Homes for Children aims to give hope to the poorest children in the world – those who are orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable – by enabling them to grow up within the love of a family and the security of a home, so that they can fulfil their potential. The organisation’s vision is a world where every child feels loved.
International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems.
The International Social Service (ISS) helps individuals, children and families confronted with social problems involving two, or more, countries as a consequence of international migration or displacement. As an international not-for-profit organisation, it is active in around 140 countries through a network of national branches, affiliated bureaus and correspondents (link toward illustrative map). Each year, it provides services to more than 50’000 persons throughout the world each year.
OASIS is a United Kingdom based parent to parent support group for families at all stages of the inter-country adoption process. OASIS has over 1,000 members comprised of those with adult children through to those just beginning to explore the process.
The Orphan Institute is a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to assist governments with their child welfare responsibilities by advocating for orphans to have a permanent family.
Puerta al Mundo is a Honduran based organization, which works in collaboration with local churches, to equip, train, and send Hondurans to work in some of the poorest and most destitute areas of the world.
Shepherd's Keep is South African based home for abandoned babies, both HIV positive or negative, from birth to six months old.
The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination. To this end the organisations develop and implement projects designed to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children in their own environment (including families and communities).
Viva works in partnership with local networks to give vulnerable children around the world the chance of a happier, healthier, and brighter future, free from deprivation, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. Viva has a special area of focus on continuum of care for children without families.
As a child-focused organization, World Vision works to strengthen policies to protect children who are vulnerable to abuse and neglect.