For a decade, Hope and Homes for Children has helped children, including those with disabilities, to move from orphanages to family-based care, restoring a nurturing familial environment.
Learn more about our support for closing institutions for children with disabilities.
Hope and Homes for Children transforms orphanages into multifunctional community centers, benefiting the wider community.
Learn about the transformation of an institution for children with disabilities into a day care center.
Hope and Homes for Children uses SMS technology to advocate and support children with disabilities.
Discover how SMS technology connects children with disabilities, including those hidden at home, to essential services.
Hope and Homes for Children Rwanda has supported the repurposing of 16 institutions and orphanages, including 2 centers for children with disabilities. In total, 1,352 children, including 126 with disabilities, have been reintegrated into families or placed into family-based care.
Over the past 10 years, Hope and Homes for Children programs have positively impacted approximately 170,000 children, including roughly 5,000 children with disabilities across the country.
Hope and Homes for Children Rwanda has been at the forefront of planning and implementing child care reform, in fostering a strong social work force through curriculum development, training, and supervision of 68 government staff (social workers and Psychologists).
In Rwanda, “Malayika Murinzi,” or “Angel Guardians,” are parents who take on the noble responsibility of raising children who cannot be reunified with their biological
After twenty years of collaboration with Hope and Homes for Children, Rwanda is set to become the first nation in Africa to end the institutionalisation
Major step forward as the countries of the Commonwealth commit to eliminating orphanages In June 2022, heads of government and ministers from across the Commonwealth
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