Cottage homes and foster care
Hope Now also provides Christian Cottage Homes and fostering as a family based alternative to State run Institutions. |
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Family Sponsorship
Family sponsorship is designed to help families to stay together. It has been known for the State to split up poor families and send some of the children to internats. |
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Pre-independence Homes
In 2003 Hope Now opened Swindon House for orphaned girls as a transitional stage between internat and independent living. Each girl secured a place at trade school and in addition to learning a specific trade, all were given additional evening studies designed to prepare them for integration into the wider society. |
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No Child Left Behind
More than half of all orphans experience homelessness and as many as 10% of the 69,000 registered orphans are likely to commit suicide unless they are better prepared for independent living. |
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Rainbow house
In 2001 a group of Christians from America visited Cape Town with Vic Jackopson. While there they visited a Portuguese speaking church for Angolan and Rwandan refugees. Ten children sat in the front row... |
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Street Children
Hope Now President, Vic Jackopson, was responsible for setting up the Kyiv Coalition for Street Children, a consortium of more than 20 Christian charities dedicated to the care of homeless children. |
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