By James Paul | Senior Grant Writer
We’re pleased to report that 2017 was an extremely successful year for the project. As you know, we deliver training in family placement to orphanages across Asia, enabling them to set up or expand local family placement programmes. This means that children can be moved out of the orphanages and placed with local, loving foster families.
China is too large for Care for Children’s team to train all state-run orphanages, so a more innovative and strategic approach is required. Our focus in 2017 was to build the capacity of five more experienced orphanages that are strategically located across the country. Our hope is for them to become regional training hubs and examples of best practice in family placement, with the capacity to train and influence other orphanages within their respective provinces.
Over the year, we delivered training to 249 orphanage staff from these five orphanages, as well as a number of other smaller orphanages. We were delighted that several staff members from the five orphanages joined our team to co-deliver some of the training workshops.
Furthermore, each of the five orphanages delivered at least one training workshop independently of Care for Children. These workshops were attended by foster carers, their own staff and, in some cases, staff from other orphanages. This is an extremely exciting development as it goes a long way to ensuring that this work is sustainable in the long-term.
Once again, thank you for your support and staying connected with our work.
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