impact report 2017/18 IMPACT REPORT 2017/18 CONTENTS
FAMILIES. NOT CONTENTS ORPHANAGES. 4 We have much to celebrate
6 At a glance
Orphanages do not protect children. 8 Reporting back They harm them. Which is why we are 9 Assess the readiness to transform child protection in working towards a day where every the countries where we have influence and to drive that child can grow up in a loving family. readiness forward so that reform gains momentum 10 Kick starting child protection reform in Ukraine 12 Iryna’s story Hope and Homes for Children is a global 14 Document and share our learning on how to deliver reform, expert in the field of deinstitutionalisation – and expand the training support we offer so that others can work with us to eliminate institutional care of children supporting children into loving families 16 Deliver our 100th orphanage closure worldwide and and preventing family breakdown. With celebrate how these closures build the momentum to your support we are building a global trigger global reform 18 Progress the commitment of globally influential organisations, movement that will eliminate orphanages including across the private sector, to stop funding orphanages and re-direct their generous support toward in our lifetime. prevention and delivering family-based care for all children 19 Securing the partnerships, funding and investment to Our mission deliver our mission To be the catalyst for the global elimination 26 Giselle’s story of institutional care of children. 28 Looking to the future
Our vision 29 2018 priorities A world in which children no longer suffer institutional care. 30 Thank you
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WE HAVE MUCH TO CELEBRATE
MARK WADDINGTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Because of your generous support, we have much to celebrate.
Support from our team in ast year 39,000 children benefited from to find work. The girls were taken from her and Bosnia and Herzegovina the prevention services that we helped placed in a soulless state orphanage. It was prevented Edin (waving) local authorities to set up. These are almost as if they were being punished for their and his siblings from being L placed in an orphanage essential services that ensure children do father’s repeated brutality. not end up living without a family or isolated when they were at risk of separation from their from their communities in orphanages. At just But Jasmina was not for giving up on her
parents and one another. Coffey HHC/Steve Photo: over 70p per day per child, that’s not a cost, daughters. it’s an investment. And national governments across many of the countries we work in are Hope and Homes for Children worked with our now committed to scaling up these services local authority partners to reunite Jasmina, to benefit many more children. The impact Amela and Sara and helped them find a It also requires us to develop alternative family otherwise be suffering. The next phase of continues to ripple outward. small apartment in Sarajevo. Jasmina was and community-based arrangements for those our strategy, which we launch this year, will supported to find a job and Sara and Amela children who, when necessary, are placed build on all our achievements by making We share more statistics, showing what we were enrolled in nursery. They are rebuilding into care. And it requires us to place all those orphanages an unacceptable way of looking have achieved with your support, on page 6. their lives together and making good progress. children who are confined within orphanages after children. This will mean that instead Please do take a look. Sara and Amela are happy because they are back with their families or, if this is not in their of having to push uphill with the practical in a safe environment with the love of their best interests, in other suitable family settings work we deliver on the ground, we will have But what do these numbers actually mean? mum. They have a future and hope. which are most appropriate for their individual more momentum pushing downhill and will Behind these statistics are individual children. needs. An important part of eliminating be getting ever closer to the elimination of Children like Sara and Amela. Realising our vision – a world in which children orphanages, therefore, is the training we orphanages globally. no longer suffer institutional care – is as much provide to equip social workers and other Sara, two and Amela, five, live with their about what is left behind as what is removed. professionals with the skills to provide ongoing Having you with us on this journey is mother, Jasmina, in Sarajevo. They had Eliminating orphanages requires us to support support to children and families. essential. You are helping to make the endured beating after beating from their local authorities and governments to develop world the kind of place we want our father, before Jasmina eventually took the girls prevention services to stop children like Sara Over the last five years, one million children children to grow up in. and left. But with youth unemployment at 63% and Amela from being separated from their like Sara and Amela were protected thanks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jasmina struggled families in the first place. to you. That’s one million children growing Thank you so very much for your up in loving, protective families who would commitment.
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AT A GLANCE The impact of your support for children in 2017 and since we launched our strategy in January 2013. 103 SINCE 1999
CHILDREN PREVENTED FROM SEPARATING FROM FAMILIES AND ENTERING INSTITUTIONS IN 2017 21 136 COUNTRIES OF INFLUENCE NATIONAL PARTNERS 3 7 STRATEGIC PROJECTS NATIONAL PROGRAMS
BENEFITING AN ESTIMATED
ORGANISATIONAL INCOME IN 2017*
*This is management data. Hope and Homes for Children’s full, audited accounts will be published later in 2018.
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REPORTING BACK In 2017, we set ourselves four priorities to help us maximise 1. ASSESS THE READINESS TO TRANSFORM our impact for children. Here we highlight some of the CHILD PROTECTION IN THE COUNTRIES year’s key achievements in relation to these goals. WHERE WE HAVE INFLUENCE AND TO DRIVE THAT READINESS FORWARD SO THAT REFORM GAINS MOMENTUM
India: Sharing learning South Africa: One Child One Family In October, we began a new project In South Africa, we now have the full in Jarkand state with our partners support of all key stakeholders for CINI (Children in Need Institute), to the One Child One Family project demonstrate how children can be cared in Gauteng Province. In December, for and protected without institutions, the Gauteng Department of Social to train state and non-governmental Development adopted our Assisted groups to develop and deliver alternative Family Support model for use at all 13 care and to raise awareness about the of the province’s children’s institutions, harmful effects of orphanages. underlining their belief in both our vision and methodology. The ultimate aim
of One Child One Family is to make Africa: Together we’re stronger Guateng the first institution-free province In November, Transform Alliance in South Africa. Africa, a coalition of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) initiated by Hope and Homes for Children, celebrated Latin America and the Caribbean: its first anniversary with the launch Joining forces for change of a website, advocacy strategy and In partnership with UNICEF LACRO, business plan. The Alliance is a collective we began to develop guidance for of 13 organisations from six countries governments in the region on planning in Southern, East and West Africa, for deinstitutionalisation to be piloted committed to ending institutional care and published in 2018. We also provided of children. strategic support and contributed to dialogue, initiatives and the efforts of national and regional NGOs including Uganda: Building a team of social Brazil’s National Movement for Family care professionals and Community Life, and the Latin Our strategic project in Uganda is now American Network of Care Leavers. well established. In partnership with
Child’s i Foundation, we continued Following the death of 41 children in a work to develop and implement a fire at an over-crowded institution for training programme for child protection girls in Guatemala in March 2017, we professionals. This included training staff joined calls for governments to commit in an institution targeted for closure, to to a world without orphanages and began assess children for family or community work with UNICEF to help the Guatemalan placements and the production of a Government ensure that its response to handbook for social workers in East the tragedy marks the beginning of a and Southern Africa with a specific fundamental change in the way it cares focus on Uganda and Rwanda. for vulnerable children.
Triplets, Ben, Bryan and Billy, are growing up together, cared for by their mother, Grace, with the support of our
partner organisation in Uganda, Child’s i Foundation. Coffey HHC/Steve Photo:
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Monitoring global progress Making the case for reform We continued to support the introduction During the course of 2017, our Programmes and roll out of the Tracking Progress Tool - and Advocacy team provided strategic advice a free web-based diagnostic and learning to our country teams and partners to help programme designed to help track the progress develop and implement national advocacy of countries and regions in implementing the strategies with a particular focus on Kenya, UN Guidelines on Alternative Care of Children. Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Sri Lanka.
KICK STARTING CHILD PROTECTION REFORM IN UKRAINE
One of our most significant achievements in 2017 NGOs, and builds on two other recent landmark came in Ukraine. Our team played a key role in achievements: shaping and winning Government approval for a national strategy and action plan to replace the Official recognition of our innovative Family country’s vast complex of orphanages with a child Support Centres as part of the child protection protection system that ensures children can grow system in Ukraine, unlocking Government up in family or community-based care. funding and enabling these services to be replicated across the country (November 2016) Crucially, the strategy includes a commitment to stop children under three being placed in Publication of The Illusion of Protection the first institutions of any kind by 2020. national audit of the child protection system in Ukraine, which provided the hard evidence and This breakthrough comes after years of effort by data needed to drive reform (December 2016). our team in Ukraine, working with the Government and like-minded national and international
In a country where the political situation is so challenging, a country that still has the highest number of children in institutions in Europe (almost 100,000) we managed through the dedication of our team to finally catalyse the government to put children high on their agenda and to sign up to a strategy for deinstitutionalisation.
Delia Pop, Director of Programmes and Global Advocacy, Hope and Homes for Children Photo: HHC Photo:
Day care services at Community Hubs in Rwanda, developed by Hope and Homes 10 for Children, mean parents can work, knowing their children are safe and happy. 11 IMPACT REPORT 2017/18 IRYNA’S STORY
We arranged nine months of intensive A year on, Iryna felt that she had the self- counselling for Iryna to help her increase her confidence and the practical skills she self-esteem and cope with her depression. needed to care for herself and her baby IRYNA’S At the same time, our family support workers independently. Today, they live in a small taught Iryna all the basic skills she needed apartment provided by the local authority and to care for her daughter and herself. They they have the support of their neighbours in STORY helped her to establish a bond with Daryna the village. Iryna knows that she and Daryna and develop her parenting skills. Day by day no longer have to face the future alone. Iryna’s relationship with Daryna deepened. She learned to love her baby and to become a mother. Iryna was in her early twenties when she gave birth to her daughter, Daryna, but her own traumatic childhood meant she had no idea how to be a mother.
ryna’s father was a violent alcoholic to alcohol, who mocked and assaulted her. who beat his wife and children. The only When Daryna was born, she was bewildered. Imemories Iryna has of her earliest years No one had ever cared for Iryna and she are of feeling cold, hungry and afraid. did not know how to care for her baby. Overcome by depression and with no one When she was six years old, the authorities to turn to, Iryna was in danger of losing her finally stepped in. They decided that the best own daughter to an orphanage. way to protect Iryna and her siblings was to separate them from their mother and one Thankfully, the head of the rural council in another and send them to grow up alone in the village where Iryna lived, approached the Ukraine orphanage system. staff at the local Family Support Centre, established by Hope and Homes for Children, Iryna had never been to school and the to see if they could help. abuse and neglect she had suffered meant her speech had been delayed. She was “You have to take this young woman on or quickly but mistakenly diagnosed as having we will take her baby away,” he said. “She learning difficulties and sent to a specialist cannot do anything, she does not understand boarding school. In reality, this place was anything, and the child will die with her!” little better than a prison where children whose parents couldn’t care for them Among the services the Centre provides is a without support were warehoused and Mother and Baby Unit where vulnerable new left to survive as best they could. mothers like Iryna can learn the skills and find the confidence they need to take care of their The years that Iryna spent in the institution babies and break the cycle of abandonment scarred her for life, physically and emotionally. and institutionalisation. She was humiliated by the staff and beaten and sexually abused by the older children. On her fist day at the Centre, Iryna kept her eyes fixed on the floor. She didn’t show any Unsurprisingly, when Iryna turned 18 and interest in Daryna. She didn’t want to pick was expected to fend for herself, history her up or even look at her, let alone feed her. quickly began to repeat itself. She started a She simply waited for the staff to tell her relationship with a man who was addicted what to do. By providing the right support at the right time, Hope and Homes for Children in Ukraine helped to break the cycle of orphanage care for Iryna and her
daughter, Daryna. HHC Photo:
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Africa: advancing advocacy 2. DOCUMENT AND SHARE OUR LEARNING ON In addition to training on deinstitutionalisation and family support, we have trained 45 professionals across seven African countries on advocacy approaches, tools and HOW TO DELIVER REFORM, AND EXPAND techniques and supported the delivery of four awareness raising sessions in the East and Southern Africa region to further spread our message and influence Governments, THE TRAINING SUPPORT WE OFFER SO THAT donors, media and civil society organisations.
OTHERS CAN WORK WITH US TO ELIMINATE Latin America: building capacity In Latin America and the Caribbean we continued to work with our partner, RELAF, to INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF CHILDREN support the Centre of Excellence for Children, a learning platform that trains, supports and strengthens the human resources needed to implement deinstitutionalisation across the region. As a result, in 2017 we provided face-to-face and online training for 123 child Engaging and inspiring professionals Training for reform care professionals from eight countries. Twelve months after we established an In Africa, drawing on the skills and expertise Engagement and Learning team we have of our staff in Rwanda, we have developed a Sharing our learning online inspired and trained over 500 individuals strong team of global trainers and deployed We have developed and launched our first set of video tutorials, supported the launch outside our countries of operation to deliver them to support projects in Uganda, Zambia of an online training course about the UN Guidelines on Alternative Care and a further child protection system reform. These people and Zimbabwe. training programme on Alternative Care in Emergencies. included professionals working with children in NGOs and government agencies, many of them decision makers and leaders.
After this training, I clearly understand the meaning of child rights in practice, the feelings of a child in an institution. Also, I You think you know everything. And then someone like you comes am absolutely convinced that family is better than an institution along and blows your mind! Now we know we have been wrong even if it is very well equipped. My vision is completely changed. in the way we thought we were caring for the children. But it took I want to work on a new way, please teach us. someone like you to come over and tell us different and now we are convinced there can be a better way! Participant in DI training in Ukraine
A staff member at a local orphanage, following a training session in Zimbabwe
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3. DELIVER OUR 100TH ORPHANAGE CLOSURE WORLDWIDE AND CELEBRATE HOW THESE CLOSURES BUILD THE MOMENTUM TO TRIGGER GLOBAL REFORM
100th closure symbolises wider impact children in families, however, is just part of the In June, we celebrated the 100th orphanage closure work we do. The 100th closure also symbolises in our organisation’s history when the last child left many thousands more children prevented from the Home of Mercy in Kigali, Rwanda. All the children entering institutional care in the first place through who had been confined to the institution are now our work with governments to tackle the root living in family or community-based care. causes of family breakdown.
Reaching 100 orphanage closures is a significant In an article for the Summer 2017 edition of Hope achievement and represents thousands of children magazine, Stefan Darabus, Regional Operations saved from institutional care and placed in loving Director for Hope and Homes for Children in families. Closing orphanage buildings and placing Central and Southern Europe wrote:
I like to think about orphanage closures in terms of the butterfly effect; the idea that small changes can lead to much larger ones, that a butterfly fluttering its wings on one continent might eventually lead to a hurricane on another. What Hope and Homes for Children works to achieve is not just the closure of single institutions. Our goal is to be the catalyst for a fundamental shift away from The learning we have taken from the 100 closures over the last 23 systems that rely on abusive institutions to systems which years has given us the knowledge, expertise and reputation to have respect children as individuals and offer those children the an even broader impact. We have influenced and compelled child love and protection of a family. protection reform across many countries by informing legislation, setting national reform plans with governments and training tens of thousands of social workers and practitioners. No other organisation has reached this milestone. The breadth of learning and practice we have developed places us at the heart of a growing global movement, Our work in the East and acting as a catalyst for the elimination of orphanages. Southern Africa Region is supported with UK aid from the UK Government. Mark Waddington, Chief Executive, Hope and Homes for Children Photo: HHC Photo:
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4. PROGRESS THE COMMITMENT OF GLOBALLY SECURING THE PARTNERSHIPS, FUNDING INFLUENTIAL ORGANISATIONS, INCLUDING AND INVESTMENT TO DELIVER OUR MISSION
ACROSS THE PRIVATE SECTOR, TO STOP FUNDING End the Silence Backed by some of the biggest names in music, In September, we launched our biggest ever End the Silence drew on the unique, unifying power ORPHANAGES AND RE-DIRECT THEIR GENEROUS fundraising and awareness-raising campaign, of music to ask the public to share the most precious End the Silence, in partnership with YouTube. musical memories from their childhood and help to SUPPORT TOWARD PREVENTION AND DELIVERING end the silence for the 8million children suffering The campaign communicated a simple message - silently in orphanages around the world. FAMILY-BASED CARE FOR ALL CHILDREN no childhood should be one of silence. When our founders, Mark and Caroline Cook, first entered Sir Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran, Sir Elton John, Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith, Paul Weller, Damon Influencing EU External Action Engaging faith-based organisations an orphanage in the 1990s they discovered Albarn, Noel Gallagher and Emeli Sande were Building on our previous success in influencing We continued our strategic engagement with the something that would go on to shape our work for among the many incredible musicians who leant EU internal policies and funds, in 2017 we began Christian Alliance for Orphans and began working decades; despite being full of babies and children, their voices – and memories – to support End advocating for the EU to promote DI in its with Faith to Action to help their members critically orphanages can be deadly silent places. When the Silence. development of global policies. Together with evaluate their support of orphanages and reallocate a baby in an orphanage cries, nobody comes to LUMOS, we developed the joint policy paper, their resources to family and community-based care. comfort them. As a result, babies learn not to cry; ‘Putting child protection and family care at the internalising their pain and causing lifelong mental heart of EU external action’ and organised high- Raising awareness in the Commonwealth and physical damage. level lobby meetings with EU officials in charge of In Uganda, Hope and Homes for Children and international development and EU external affairs. Child’s i Foundation organised a number of events Again in partnership with LUMOS we organised and side meetings during the 9th Commonwealth a series of meetings to discuss collaboration with Youth Ministers Meeting, hosted by the Ugandan relevant Brussels-based Civil Society Organisations Government in Kampala. We raised awareness of and NGOs in the field to co-ordinate our advocacy the issue of institutional care with Youth Ministers action in this area. and Civil Society Organisations from 52 countries Ed Sheeran of the Commonwealth. We also supported Child’s i Carrickfergus Foundation to deliver a presentation at a high-level by Van Morrison and the Chieftans side meeting hosted by the First Lady of Uganda and submitted a paper on “Deinstitutionalisation and Returns on Investment”. We lived in Yorkshire, which is about a four or five hour drive to London. My parents would commute and I’d be sat on the back seat and this was pretty much the only tape cassette Your commitment, vision, and expertise is critical to the success of we had – that and The Beatles. It’s the one song I remember. It takes me this project. We truly can’t do it without you...we appreciate you! back to that specific moment, much like songs from my teenage years take me back to being a teenager or songs from two years ago transport Leading faith-based organisation you back there.
My wheels have not stopped turning since our discussion. Thinking about ways to move forward that have not been explored to this point.
One of the largest donors currently working to refurbish institutions Mark SurridgePhoto:
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Sir Paul McCartney Bee-Bop-A-Lula by Jean Vincent
Bee-Bop A-Lula was the first record I ever bought and I’d saved up all my pocket money and went down to the town centre in Liverpool town so that was it. I brought it home and I played it to death. Music was very important to me growing up. To imagine not having music is terrifying Sir Elton John really. I don’t know what I would have done. I certainly wouldn’t be who The Deadwood Stage I am today because the influences and the joy of listening to the music by Doris Day is what made me.
I had to have a tooth out at my local dentists and the only way I was going to do it is if my mum bought that record for me after. So I had my tooth out, we went in to the record Ellie Goulding store and we bought The Deadwood Stay Stage. And I clutched it, I loved it so by Shakespeare’s Sister much, I couldn’t wait to get home and I played it and I played it and I played it and I played it. I can’t remember how old I was when that song came out but I was young. It’s my earliest memory and it makes me feel really happy. Every morning when I was young I’d wake up and hear the CD player playing everything – there was a song for every moment. I have a terrible memory and music is the thing that pieces it all back together for me.
End the Silence was run as part of the The campaign exceeded all expectations, raising £2.6m Department for International Development’s - doubled to £5.2m with matching. The coverage of the (DFID) UK Aid Match scheme, meaning that campaign was extensive, appearing in media outlets as every pound donated during the three- diverse as The Telegraph, Evening Standard, NME, Sky month campaign period was matched by News, BBC Radio, The Guardian, clearly communicating the UK Government. The matched income the message that children need families, not orphanages. from DFID will fund a three-year project in Rwanda and Uganda, including the first closure of an institution for You can still get involved with the campaign – go to children with special needs in Rwanda. endthesilence.com to submit your musical memory or to watch the videos of the campaign’s high profile supporters. Photo: ShutterstockPhoto:
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Rising to the challenge for children Press and peers trade places Bank partnership raises £2 million over two years events, and covered more than 30,000km by hiking, Our fundraising events and challenges kick-started Our annual Swapping Seats event, giving Our two year Deutsche Bank partnership has been cycling and running in a range of challenges from relationships with new supporters and raised politicians their chance to take revenge on journalists, their most successful to date, raising over £2.1 million Mount Kilimanjaro to the coastline of Scotland. In over £503,661 in 2017. The Hollywood Ball, held took place over lunch on 17 November at Royal in total. Deutsche Bank and its employees supported addition to fundraising, employees across their in Burton-on-Trent in November raised a record Horseguards Hotel, Whitehall. Chaired by Esther our work through challenge events, volunteering 8,000 UK workforce also generously offered their £100,000, following three years of development Rantzen, it was a huge success with 142 guests and donating a day’s salary in the Bank’s annual skills and expertise to our organisation, moving by the Midlands Committee, led by our Patron, enjoying the fiery exchanges between Michael fundraising campaign, ‘One Day’. Employees us closer to a day where children no longer suffer Clare Wright. Intrepid adventurers trekked Howard and Jeremy Paxman and Michael Heseltine competed, quizzed and danced at more than 110 institutional care. through Romanian mountains, cycled Rwanda, and the Deputy Editor of the New Statesman, scaled Machu Picchu, and took on a multitude Helen Lewis. The event raised £31,500 and inspired of courageous challenges to support our work. a significant number of guests to support our cause. Over 1,200 people were inspired by our Night of Adventure events, organised by our Patron, Alastair Radio listeners give their support Humphreys. Our fantastic Support Groups once In October, the poet and broadcaster, Lemn Sissay again delivered imaginative, fun and engaging presented the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of It was a pleasure working with Hope and Homes for Children as one of our events, dinners, quizzes, dances and much more Hope and Homes for Children, raising £29,255 to support us. towards our work and spreading the word that Charities of the Year 2016-17. We were able to make a transformative impact children need families, not orphanages. to a small organisation, which won the hearts and minds of our employees through its innovative engagement opportunities and the ability to see and understand the tangible difference made on the ground.
Nicole Lovett Head of Corporate Social Responsibility UK, Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank Wealth Management team tackled the Yorkshire Three Peaks
challenge, raising £10,500 for Hope and Homes for Children, in July HHC Photo:
Decade of support for children towards closing another in the Rusizi district, Financial Lifestyle Management, now in its tenth strengthening the child protection services in these year of supporting Hope and Homes for Children, two districts and benefiting over 100 vulnerable has provided key funds to projects in Moldova, children. Financial Lifestyle Management’s Bosnia, Romania, Ukraine, and Rwanda. In 2017, their employees continue to be committed and generous
Photo: HHC/Steve Coffey HHC/Steve Photo: commitment to Rwanda led to the closure of two in their support of Hope and Homes for Children. orphanages in the Gatsibo district and progress
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We are proud to continue to support the work that Hope and Homes for Children do, transforming the lives of so many children across the globe.
David Clemson, Director of Riviera Travel
Travel partnership continues to benefit children International Development UK Aid Match grant which Now in its 20th year, our partnership with Riviera Travel means the UK Government will double every pound is one of Hope and Homes for Children’s longest- raised by End the Silence to fund a three-year project
Photo: HHC Photo: standing relationships. In 2017, Riviera’s clients and in Rwanda and Uganda; a three-year commitment from employees continued to demonstrate their generosity THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS towards child protection and commitment to our cause, raising over £100,000 reform at a national level in Romania; and a three-year to support our work with children. commitment from Oak Foundation towards ending the institutionalisation of babies and young children in Record year for grants fundraising Moldova and Bulgaria. I completed my first triathlon in a rather unorthodox manner… but In 2017, we were delighted to secure a number of completed it nonetheless, thanks to the support and encouragement new major, multi-year grants from previous and We were also thrilled to be awarded an initial grant from new supporters towards key programmes of work the Postcode Equality Trust, supported by players of the of everyone there! It was a fantastic experience, well organised and around the world. These include the Department for People’s Postcode Lottery, towards our work in Rwanda. full of cheerful encouraging individuals! I look forward to next year’s!
Cameron Row SJP Cirencester
SJP increase support in 25th anniversary year coming together in St. Albans to raise £170,000. The work of Hope and Homes for Children is the 2017 was a hugely successful year for the long-standing partnership between Hope and We are also incredibly grateful to the gold standard for our sector. Homes for Children and St. James’s Place St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation for Wealth Management, raising over £1 million their decision to award £650,000 over three in total. As they celebrated the company’s years towards the transformation of the 25th Anniversary, employees supported Hope Bjelave Institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Philip Goldman, President, Maestral and Homes for Children in a number of ways With over 2,000 children currently confined in including taking part in trekking, cycling and orphanages in the country we are confident running events across the globe. In October, that with support from St. James’s Place and we organised the largest Triathlon and the Charitable Foundation we can create Duathlon event in its 15 year history, with over lasting change in Sarajevo that will hugely 100 participants from across the partnership benefit children and their families. Nearly all our grants are UK-based, but your highly-focused and experienced support seems one of the most successful overseas aid initiatives. We believe this project will be transformative, hundreds of children in Bosnia will receive the love and care they deserve.
Andrew Fletcher OBE, Trustee of The Joyce Fletcher Charitable Trust
Diane Vurlow, Grants Manager, St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation
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GISELLE’S STORY
“No!” She loves to play Mums and Dads and takes all the laundry, clean and dirty, into the Giselle is a playful, friendly little girl yard to pretend to do the washing. Although who enjoys meeting new people. this creates extra work, Rolette understands that this kind of play is essential for Giselle to develop and recover from her years in the he likes to show visitors how she can orphanage. Our team in Rwanda is continuing pull herself up to sit on a low bench, to monitor Giselle’s progress and cover Spack and zip up her school rucksack expenses including transport to specialist and put it on her back. These may not medical and physiotherapy appointments, sound like remarkable achievements for an food and hygiene equipment and ongoing eight year old child but for Giselle, they are training for Rolette so that she can continue extraordinary. Born with cerebral palsy and to help Giselle learn and develop. abandoned at birth, Giselle spent her earliest years in an orphanage, neglected and Rolette is determined that Giselle will be able ignored. At the age of five, she couldn’t stand to walk by herself soon; and no one who meets or use her arms. Today, thanks to the care this joyful little girl, thriving within the love and and dedication of her foster mother, Rolette, protection of her new family, can be in any Giselle’s life has been transformed. doubt that she will succeed.
We met Giselle when our team in Rwanda closed the orphanage where Giselle was struggling to survive. We did all we could to trace her biological family but when no relatives could be found we began the careful process of finding the right specialist foster family to care for this courageous little girl. In partnership with a specialist NGO, we identified Rolette and her family as a good potential match for Giselle. Once the necessary checks and training had been carried out, we gave Giselle and Rolette the support they needed to adjust to living together.
Our social worker, Justine, says that Giselle is now fully integrated into her new family and the local community. She is very attached to her foster mother and she is becoming more mobile and more independent every day. Although she communicates mostly through signs and sounds, Giselle is beginning to speak a few words and Rolette says Giselle knows how to stand up for herself. If people talk about her over her head and ask, “Is
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Giselle greets Justine, a member of Hope and Homes for Children’s social work team in Rwanda HHC Photo:
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2018 LOOKING TO PRIORITIES
THE FUTURE 1. 5,000 social workers, child protection and other childcare professionals and volunteers trained.
2. 39,000 children benefiting from prevention services.
RICHARD GREENHALGH, 3. 250,000 children benefiting from alternative care CHAIR OF TRUSTEES arrangements.
4. Collection and analysis of the data needed to calculate I have lived and worked in Africa for Orphanages have to go, replaced by family the necessary funding required to eliminate institutions many years, seen child poverty and support. It can be done, the track record is family breakdown. In the UK I have there. Governments are increasingly being in three regions progressed with strategies to secure been involved in education at all levels, persuaded by the arguments and in countries the funds also in development. appreciating the centrality of family like Romania and Rwanda commitments are and community. in place to close orphanages and replace them with family-based care and support. 5. New pilot project established and being implemented in India. ut orphanages were not on my radar Hope and Homes for Children is uniquely until recently. I knew that there were bad placed to raise awareness, advocate, advise, Borphanages, but I did not appreciate train and demonstrate how to implement 6. Opening Doors for Europe’s Children and Transform that across the globe they were unnecessary closures of orphanages and strengthen Alliance Africa progress international and national level and so harmful to children. families and communities. The global movement is building but there is much commitments to eliminating institutions across Europe Since becoming Chair of Trustees in June 2017, work to do – your committed support is as and Africa. a curiosity to know more has been replaced vital as ever. by a passion to DO more. The mission is clear, ambitious and uncompromising. Thank you 7. Help form a representative group of experts to develop joint plans to eliminate institutional care at global level.
8. Private sector working group established to begin harnessing the capacity of multi-national companies to make orphanages an unacceptable way of looking after children.
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THANK YOU
The impact we are making for children is only possible because of your We would like to thank our Trustees and Patrons for their generous generous support. We would like to thank the following supporters who support and tireless work over the last year. made especially significant contributions to our work in 2017:
Marcus and Paula Alexander Hawkesdown House School The Ranworth Trust The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Hertfordshire Support Group Martin Rashdi Patrons Trustees Kate Adie OBE J Timothy Richards (Chair) – retired June 2017 Foundation The Hick Charitable Trust Jim and Tessa Rice The Rt Hon The Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon Prof Andy Bilson The Allen & Overy Foundation Kate Hobhouse James T Richards GCMG CH KBE PC Lucy Caldicott – retired July 2017 James Amos Ed Howard Leah Richmond Martin Bell OBE Bridget Cluley – retired December 2017 The Ashla Charitable Trust Richard Hughes Ride Rwanda cyclists 2017 Matt Bell Chris Cuthbert – retired November 2017 Florence and Juan Ball Lyndsey Ingram Riviera Travel Ltd The Rt Hon The Lord Carrington KG GCMG CH MC Joanne Drew (Secretary) – retired July 2017 Bank ABC International School of Milan Malcolm and Jo Rolfe PC DL Mark Grinonneau (Treasurer) The Batchworth Trust Ian and Cathryn Jamieson John Rowland General the Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL Prof Jean Grugel – retired August 2017 Bath Support Group Jay Jopling and White Cube Gerald Russell Rick Foulsham CMG Carol Haslam Bathford Support Group Michael and Gail Jopling Lily Safra David Furnish Jim Rice – retired May 2017 Alex Bennett The Joyce Fletcher Charitable Trust Munir Samji Nick Hewer Dean Williams BGC Brokers L.P. CB Lascelles Lawrence Shaw Alastair Humphreys Richard Greenhalgh (Chair) – appointed June 2017 Michael Blunt David and Amanda Leathers Paul and Penny Smee The Lady Jopling MBE Vicky Bruce – appointed June 2017 Holly Branson Tiina Lee Richard Smith Jay Jopling Matthew Banks – appointed June 2017 The Breadsticks Foundation London Ball Committee Katherine and David Soanes Gordon McInally Malcolm Sweeting – appointed June 2017 Vicky Bruce Lord Carrington’s Charitable Trust South Wales Support Group The Rt Hon Sir Donald McKinnon ONZ GCVO Buxted Construction Ltd Love in Every Step Romania trekkers 2017 South Wiltshire Support Group Natalie Pinkham The Calleva Foundation Lower Uredale Support Group Chris Stanbury Chief Executive Lily Safra Mark Waddington Chieveley Beer Festival Committee MacKenzie family St James’s Place Charitable Foundation Dame Kristin Scott Thomas DBE The Clara E Burgess Charity Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies The Swedish Postcode Foundation The Rt Hon The Lord Selkirk of Douglas PC QC Michelle Dove-Clark and Russell Clark Giles Martin The Thomas J Horne Memorial Trust Directors Princess Marina Sturdza – deceased October 2017 Dr Delia Pop, Programmes and Global Advocacy Jeremy Clay Jos and Chris Martin UBS Optimus Foundation Sam Taylor-Johnson OBE Sue Rooke, Resources Davies & Son Keith and Julia Masdin UK aid from the Department for James Whiting Sarah Whiting, Fundraising Ian and Mandy Davies David and Terry McMurtry International Development Claire Wright Deutsche Bank Medicor Foundation Lichtenstein UNICEF Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Team The Melbreak Trust Vale of Pewsey Support Group Founders Caroline Cook OBE EducateMe Stiftung Ian Melia Vale of York Support Group Mark Cook OBE Evan Cornish Foundation Midlands Ball Committee THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS Financial Lifestyle Management Ltd Harland Miller Vistra Trust Company (Jersey) Limited The Finborough Foundation David and Patricia Moran Vitol Foundation Princess Marina Sturdza, who was a supporter and Patron of Hope and Homes for Children since the very Barney Francis Charlie Mortimer and Tim Partington Andrew Ward early days, died in October 2017. Princess Marina’s ongoing commitment, very often quietly and always with The Timothy Franey Charitable Charlie Muir-Sands Tony Warner great dignity behind the scenes, has enabled us to transform the lives of thousands of children right around Foundation Ben Nash and Colin Rogers David J Wightman the world, who are now enjoying the love and protection of a family. Maurice and Katie Gale Ram Nayak Andrew and Sarah Wilkinson Garfield Weston Foundation Norfolk Support Group The Sumner Wilson Charitable Trusts James and Deirdre Garvey Oak Foundation Winsley Village Project Finally, we would like to give special mention to the following individuals and groups: GHR Foundation Chris Partington – CMP Michael and Claire Wright • Our loyal Support Groups who host quizzes, dinner parties, open gardens, barn dances and commit their Google UK Limited Penelope Martin Charitable Trust Nicholas H Wrigley time in a number of ways to raise money for Hope and Homes for Children. Andreea and Patrick Grob The Persula Foundation YouTube • Our Volunteer Speakers, Night of Adventure speakers and all our supporters who pledged a gift in their Will. Carol Haslam Postcode Equality Trust • All those who have made significant contributions to our work in 2017 and wish to remain anonymous.
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