An Intact Family Is Always the Answer
Our priority for any child in crisis is simple — to provide them with all they need for the best possible outcome. For a child with a family, that means keeping their family together, preserving their family.
We’re well qualified to say this. It’s our area of expertise.
For the last 50 years, we’ve worked with some of the most vulnerable children in the world, many of them orphans. When we first met them, some of these orphans had no living family — but many did — and could have remained with their family if they had received the help they needed before so many crises piled on top of them that life became untenable. Because life becoming unmanageable for a family is what created most of the orphans we’ve met over the last five decades.

Keeping a Family Intact
Intervene Early
Our work takes us to parts of the world where people live on the edge. These people aren’t just dealing with one crisis at a time. They live each day with a number of crises — extreme poverty, famine, civil unrest and disease, to name a few. Theirs is a daily struggle to survive. So when another crisis lands on them, it can tip them over the edge.
That’s when orphans are created — when a family is tipped over the edge.
We know that by intervening before that point, we can help a family stay together. We can help a family survive, stabilize and thrive.
With Personalized, Multi-layered Help
Our family preservation work goes deep and has many aspects to it. This is how it has to be to meet a child at risk of becoming an orphan where they are. To match the complexity of their situation. It also has to be personalized to each child and family as each situation is unique. A one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t transform a child’s life as deeply.
The services and training we provide a family might include: child sponsorship, income generation for parents, family life skills, training and education, medical services, feeding programs and emergency relief.
HOW WE DO IT
Our Family Preservation Programming
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