TESTLAB – 1Child1Family

"Families, not institutions.", registered Not-for-Profit company (K2017489514) / PBO(930073885), working in South Africa to support Gauteng Department of Social Development deinstitutionalise the child protection system.

TESTLAB – 1Child1Family

One Child One Family HHCSA is a registered Not-for-profit company (2017/489514/08), Public Benefit Organisation (930073885),
working in South Africa
to support Gauteng Department of Social Development in the deinstitutionalisation of the child protection system,
with the objective to support national care reform for a deinstitutionalised child protection system.

 “Children belong in families, not in institutions.”

Engaging and encouraging society to raise children at home
and decrease over-dependence on institutionalization of children in Child and Youth Care Centers (CYCC’s)

Hope and Homes for Children’s emergency response in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania: averting a child protection emergency of epic proportions

The invasion of Ukraine is a crisis on many fronts. Our primary concern right now is for the safety of the country’s children, most immediately, for the 100,000 children confined in 700 orphanages across the country, the unseen victims of this conflict, and the children at risk of being separated from their families.

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We’re responding to the crisis unfolding across Ukraine, Moldova and Romania.  

Update 3 March 2022: Overnight, as the situation deteriorated in Dnipro, our social workers supported the emergency evacuation of 70 children (including two babies and two disabled children). They’ve now left our community centre, where they’ve been hunkered down for the past seven days, and have been moved to a safer location. Working with the local authorities, we remain committed to protecting these children, for as long as it takes. Without generous donations from the public, our team simply wouldn’t be able to keep these children safe.”

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