About Us

Experience 7 Days of Nothing! Families For Orphans has kicked off an international effort to allow every family to help orphans at the same time they and their children can better understand the plight of orphans by experiencing “7 Days of Nothing.” Learn more here. To print out the brochure explaining the program, click here.

We are creating the most comprehensive resource and humanitarian action center for orphans and vulnerable children on the Web. We offer you and your family ideas, information and opportunities to help solve the growing worldwide orphan crisis.

We focus on three main areas:

• Education: Publishing current articles, statistics, analysis and peer reviewed social science research regarding adoption and orphan issues and highlighting successful interventions and outcomes.
• Advocacy: Promoting policies and programs that serve the best interest of these orphans and vulnerable children.
• Humanitarian Service: Organizing donors and volunteers to provide family-based humanitarian aid to children and families including direct aid to children in crisis and facilitating intra-country and inter-country adoption.

Our goal is to help families help orphans find families. I invite you to sign up for our free monthly “Orphan Watch" newsletter to learn more about our efforts and what you can do to help. Every individual and every family can do something, and all of us must do whatever we can to help.

Please join us in helping these children who so desperately need us. Thank you for whatever you can do.

Sincerely,

Sharon Slater, Chair

P.S. I invite you to browse this site to learn more about our activities, and I urge you to make a tax-deductible contribution to support our efforts. You can safely and easily do this online or print out a form to mail in a contribution.

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From the Director's Notebook...

I am very excited to welcome you to the Families for Orphans Web site! Much of my excitement comes from being able to share with a much broader audience the experience and insights I have gained from helping to provide medical intervention and inter-country adoption for more than 1,500 vulnerable and orphaned children over the past 16 years. (Click here to read the rest of Morgan’s message.)

 

 

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The Families for Orphans Project grew out of the experiences of many people who have visited developing countries and witnessed firsthand the bleak and often life-threatening conditions in which so many orphans are trapped. Some of these people are responding by personally adopting orphans into their own families. Others are directing financial support to specific orphanages or projects or are supporting individual orphans who are being cared for by families in their home countries.

All of them, no matter how they are now responding individually, are determined to do even more to deal with this exploding humanitarian crisis. One of those additional responses has been to organize the Families Saving for Project.

The primary goal of our project is to inform others of the plight of these orphans and give those who are moved to help a secure, reliable and cost-effective means of doing so. While we provide traditional support for orphans, we are also developing innovative and even more efficient and cost-effective ways to deal with this crisis. In this effort we draw upon our extensive collective experience “on the ground” in the developing countries in which we are sponsoring pilot projects as well as utilizing our collective experience and contacts with government officials and with humanitarian agencies and researchers in this area.

We invite you to look at the projects we currently have underway and to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter which will keep you updated on our efforts and on important news and developments in the global effort to help orphans.

We urgently need the most generous financial contribution you can make to support our efforts. Contributions are tax deductible for U.S. citizens. Click here to easily and securely make an online contribution or print out a form to contribute by mail.

Thank you helping us give these orphans and vulnerable children the chance for a healthy, happy and productive life.