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.

Welcome to Families for Orphans!

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.)