Homecoming

80% of children in orphanages have a living parent and most have other family members - siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles. But against a backdrop of poverty, orphanages can become magnets that attract families to surrender their children to them. Homecoming is a coalition of organisations that believe that children thrive in families and want to inspire and equip the UK church to support family strengthening, reunification, kinship care, fostering and local adoption as a healthier alternative to orphanages. We believe that children belong in families, not institutions, and so we want to see families supported and communities strengthened so that vulnerable children can thrive in the love and commitment of a family for life.