Our partners
We are working together for lasting change.
Real change happens when those closest to the challenge lead the way. That’s why we partner with organisations deeply embedded in their communities, with the knowledge, trust, and experience to create meaningful, lasting solutions for children and families. Each partner brings a unique perspective, and we support them with flexible funding, technical expertise, and opportunities for shared learning.
Below, you’ll find more about the incredible organisations we work alongside, each playing a vital role in transforming care for children.
Alternative Care Thailand (ACT) is a collective of NGOs and consultants committed to ensuring all children in Thailand grow up in safe and nurturing families. Formed in 2015 as a subgroup of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Coalition Thailand (CRCCT), ACT works to strengthen family-based care and reduce reliance on institutional care.
Through our partnership, we provide flexible funding aligned with ACT’s priorities. This has included support for national coordination meetings, a research project mapping childcare institutions in Chiang Mai, and a train the trainer event to launch ACT’s Family Strengthening Handbook, a practical guide developed to equip organisations with tools to help keep children safely with their families.
The Better Care Network (BCN) is an interagency network that facilitates global information exchange and collaboration among the growing number of organisations, governments, community groups, and individuals working to strengthen children’s care around the world. BCN serves as the global hub of knowledge, with an extensive library of resources, to facilitate global action for children without family care.
Through our partnership, we provide funding to BCN to enhance global collaboration and knowledge-sharing, addressing the critical challenge of ensuring children grow up in safe and nurturing family environments.
Brave Aurora was founded in 2009 after its founders volunteered at an orphanage in northern Ghana and discovered that eight out of ten children there had at least one living parent. What began as a small initiative to reunite those children with their families has grown into one of Ghana’s leading voices for family-based care and child protection reform.
Working closely with the Department of Social Welfare and the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection, Brave Aurora works to strengthen families, empower caregivers through livelihood and education support, and promote sustainable alternatives to institutional care. Their work aligns closely with Ghana’s national care reform agenda, which aims to reduce reliance on residential care and ensure that all children can thrive in family and community settings.
The Care Leaders Council brings together individuals with lived experience of care from around the world, including those who grew up in institutions, foster care, kinship care, or through adoption. The Council was established to champion the rights of children without parental care and care-experienced people, and to ensure their voices shape the systems and policies that affect them.
Through flexible funding, we are supporting the Council to strengthen its foundations, grow its network, and contribute to global care reform efforts led by those with lived experience.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has worked in India since 1946, with programmes spanning health, emergency response, and protection. In the care reform space, CRS is a key partner in the Changing the Way We Care initiative, working with government, church, and community structures to strengthen family-based care and prevent unnecessary child separation.
Our partnership provides interim funding to support CRS and its partners in continuing this work in Tamil Nadu following the sudden termination of USAID funding. This collaboration is focused on sustaining momentum for care reform and ensuring children remain connected to families and communities.
Child’s I Foundation works with governments, national partners, and supporters worldwide to address the root causes of family separation. In Uganda, they collaborate with the government on initiatives such as a youth-led care leavers’ well-being project and a local government-led family-based alternative care project. By working in both rural and urban settings, they are creating a comprehensive model to demonstrate and ensure that eventually, no child in Uganda will ever have to spend a night in an orphanage.
Through our partnership, Child’s i Foundation has advanced foster care and kinship care in Uganda by developing models across multiple districts, contributing to national guidelines, and raising awareness of family-based care. In the wake of USAID’s closure, we provided emergency funding to help sustain this vital work and safeguard progress made.
Children’s Future International (CFI) was founded in 2008 in Battambang Province, Cambodia, with a mission to serve vulnerable, marginalised, and at-risk children by promoting child rights, ensuring access to education, improving health and wellness, and supporting family-based care. CFI’s social work team provides case management, counselling, emergency food, housing, and livelihood support, and works to prevent children from being sent to residential care institutions so that they can grow up in family-based care.
The organisation has played an important role in family strengthening efforts, particularly through its involvement in the Family Care First coalition, to which MJF Global provided emergency funding earlier this year to sustain vital social work services and material support to families facing crisis situations following the sudden closure of USAID.
Faith to Action equips Christian organisations, churches, and individuals in the United States with resources to better support orphaned and vulnerable children. They raise awareness of the harms of institutional care and promote family-based solutions grounded in faith, community, and evidence.
We are partnering with Faith to Action on a research project with Barna Group to understand how US Christian donors perceive and support care for children. The findings will inform advocacy strategies to shift donor behaviour away from orphanages and towards safe, sustainable family care.
FAMadagascar works to support and strengthen the structures and systems that surround Malagasy children, so that every Malagasy child is able to to flourish and grow up in a safe and loving family. Their three-tiered approach focuses gatekeeping, family strengthening, and foster care and provides a model for meaningful child care strengthening and reform in Madagascar that addresses the root causes of family separation.
Through funding and technical assistance, we support FAM’s core work in strengthening families to prevent children from being separated from their families, implementing the Trusted Families programme to provide safe, family-based alternative care when necessary, and reintegrating children from orphanages back into their families and communities.
Home for Good believes that we all have a part to play to ensure that every child and young person has the home they need. They work to mobilise the Church in the UK to respond to the needs of vulnerable children through two things: families stepping forward to foster, adopt or provide supported lodgings for teenagers, and churches wrapping around families with support. Their goal is to influence wider society through advocacy and engagement to create systemic change.
Through our partnership, we support the Homecoming Project, which engages UK churches and Christians to champion family-based care over orphanages. Homecoming combines research, campaigns, and church engagement to shift mindsets and funding toward solutions that enable children to grow up in safe, loving families.
One Sky is a registered Thai Foundation working to meet the needs of vulnerable children in the Thai-Burma border district of Sangkhlaburi. They approach children’s needs holistically, seeking sustainable, family-based solutions that are guided by children’s best interests and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Through our partnership, One Sky supports foster carers, works with families to enable reintegration where possible, and strengthens kinship care arrangements. This includes helping kinship carers establish small businesses to offset the costs of care and create greater long-term stability for children.
Railway Children Africa (RCA) is a Tanzanian NGO dedicated to supporting street-connected children and young people through outreach, family intervention, reunification, and youth empowerment. Since 2010, RCA has worked to address the root causes of vulnerability and champion sustainable, community-based care.
Through our partnership, we are supporting RCA’s initiative to strengthen family-based care in Tanzania. This includes working with residential care centres to reintegrate children into families, supporting care leavers, and advancing national care reform efforts in alignment with government priorities.
The Ubumwe Community Center was founded in 2005 to empower people with disabilities to live full, dignified lives. Frederick Ndabaramiye, one of its co-founders, is a survivor of the 1994 genocide who lost his arms during the conflict. He was inspired to create opportunities for others with disabilities upon his return to Rwanda. Zacharie Dusingizimana, his co-founder, was a special-education teacher who joined Frederick to make this vision a reality.
Today, UCC runs a vibrant, inclusive programme that supports people with disabilities through education, vocational training, and community-based living. Its House of Children School is one of Rwanda’s pioneering inclusive education models, where children with and without disabilities learn side by side. Through its vocational training centre, more than 600 graduates have gained livelihoods and independence.
Founded in 2007, This Life Cambodia is an award-winning organisation with a strong reputation for empowering communities to tackle complex social challenges. Operating across eight provinces, they work directly with children, women, families, and communities to address poverty, limited access to education and healthcare, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Guided by a mission to listen, engage, and advocate, This Life supports communities to define and lead their own solutions.
Our partnership supports This Life’s urgent work following the sudden closure of 34 residential care facilities in Cambodia. Together, we are supporting family reintegration, strengthening child protection systems, and ensuring children can grow up safely in families, not institutions.
Transform Alliance Africa (TAA) is a network of over 20 organisations across 12 African countries working toward a shared vision: an Africa free of orphanages, where all children grow up in safe and loving families. Through collective advocacy, peer learning, and capacity strengthening, TAA advances care reform grounded in local expertise and experience.
Our partnership contributes flexible funding during a period of growth, as TAA expands its reach, strengthens coordination across the continent, and drives momentum for an African-led movement for family care.
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