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is the first country that Hope and Homes worked in. Having initially renovated orphanages there it learnt that what children really need is a family and instead developed a model to close them with, starting with Dom Most Institution. HHC continues to support the reform of the child care system
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The charity's stated mission is "to be the catalyst for the global elimination of institutional care of children". They do this by keeping families together and avoiding separation. They also aim to reunite children with families by closing institutions; where this is not possible they set up
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In the year to December 2018, total income of the organisation was £9.1 million, a decrease on the previous year owing to falls in corporate donations and in income from trusts and foundations. Income included £1m in grants, largely from the
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since 1999. They have demonstrated models that the government has later adopted, such as for small family homes and mother and baby units. They closed the Makariv institution and set up replacement services to support children and families.
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of orphanages and children's homes. By August 2018, the charity had closed 105 institutions in nine countries, prevented around 20,000 children entering or re-entering institutions and had helped to change childcare systems.
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and the European Union, the latter to support work in Romania. Expenditure in that year was £12.3m, of which £3m was fundraising costs. The organisation drew on its reserves, which stood at £5.6m at the end of the year.
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operating and working with children, their families and communities in several countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, to help children grow up in safe and productive environments. The charity
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in Africa; this was done with the support of the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion. In 2017 the charity reported that the number of orphanages in Rwanda had fallen to 14, from 400 ten years before.
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Hope and Homes for Children is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated in 2001, as well as a registered charity. The charity manages a subsidiary, Hope and Homes for Children – Romania.
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Hope and Homes for Children was established by Mark Cook, a retired colonel, and his wife Caroline. The first project was an
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Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Central/Southern Europe, East and Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, India
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in 2010 in partnership with TBACT; it stimulated the government who then asked HHC to close eight more in the
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was issued to 'decriminalise' abandoned, illegitimate babies which allowed them to be 'adopted' within the
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alternative family care arrangements such as adoption, fostering and small family homes. The model of
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and the Romanian Government they aim to end the institutionalisation of children by 2020.
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Hope and Homes for Children work in six countries in Eastern Europe and two in Africa.
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was with Mark Cook when he founded the organisation; he later became a patron.
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principle. Over 2,400 babies have been placed within families rather than in
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Having developed a number of community hubs to support vulnerable
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founded the charity and was awarded several honours including an
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that they have developed has been recognised as best practice by
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Work is underway to reform the systems for abandoned babies in
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families to stay together, HHC closed Mpore PEFA Orphanage in
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Hope And Homes For Children, registered charity no. 1089490
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moves children out of institutions into family-based care
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and other UN agencies, showcasing initiatives promoting
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Lipik Orphanage - Djecji dom Lipik - Mark Cook on BBC
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Steeple Langford
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charity
moves children out of institutions into family-based care
orphanage
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Lipik
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deinstitutionalisation
deinstitutionaliation
UNICEF
World Health Organization
Bosnia
Teteven
Sofia
Pernik
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