Help Children And Families
Here is your chance to make a difference in the lives of children in orphanages (Child Care Institutions) by providing them with quality education and access to specialized support
Help us Reunite Children With Their Families.
We transition children from orphanages to families by giving them the proper support to stay together. We ensure children stay with their families by partnering with governments and activating community-based mechanisms that keep children safe.
ABOUT OUR INITIATIVE
Eliminating The Need For Orphanages
There are currently 5.4 million children living in orphanages worldwide. 80% of children in institutions have a living parent they can live with if given the proper support.
Through donations like yours, we are reuniting children that have been removed from there families.
Our Global Impact
Each gift improves the life of a child.
Our Work
How Your Donation Helps
Every $50 you donate can help in one of these three domains.
Stories of Impact
Read stories about how your donation can help children and families.
Divya’s Story
Learn about how Miracle Foundation helped strengthen and support Divya’s family after hardship struck their family.
Prashanth’s’s Story
What if you had to give up your son to save his life? That is the question Prashanth’s father had to answer.
Meara’s Story
Meera, a mom of four, found herself in a situation no parent wants to face: her husband passed away, leaving her to face intense challenges.
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Orphans Are Not Orphans!
When Sita was six months old, she was as small as a newborn.
She cried almost constantly from being underfed. Her belly was bloated, but her bones were seen sticking out from under her skin.
In a desperate act, her mother carried Sita to a local orphanage and begged them to take her. The little girl was dying, and her teenaged mother could not sit by and watch that happen. It wasn’t abandonment. It was love, actually. She loved her daughter so much, she would even give her away if it meant the little girl would get a chance to live.
This is the reality for a majority of the more than 5.4 million children growing up in orphanages around the world. These children aren’t orphans at all.
According to most estimates, 80% of children raised in institutions have one or more living parents. And nearly all of them have some form of family; grandparents, aunts, uncles, someone.
The issue isn’t parents at all; it’s poverty. If parents had the resources and the support, most would happily take their children back.
The irony is that it costs significantly more to support a child in an orphanage than in a family.
Think about that.
In Haiti for example, according to a study from the Lumos Foundation, an estimated 100 million dollars is donated to orphanages each year, primarily from the US.
While the heart of this generosity is meant to help, the reality is, for this amount of money, all 30,000 children currently living in Haitian orphanages could be returned home or supported in alternative care.
Not to mention how this would help avoid the harm an orphanage childhood causes to children’s social, emotional and cognitive development. All this can be accomplished just by changing our focus from orphanages to families.
Let’s bring Sita and all children out of orphanages and back into families, so they can spend as much of their remaining childhood at home where they truly belong.
