We can provide comments or interviews with experts in international childcare, UK and international staff and trustees, beneficiaries from our projects, celebrity patrons and major fundraisers. Listed below are some of our key spokespeople.
Mark Waddington has over twenty years’ experience in the humanitarian and international development sectors. He joined Hope and Homes for Children in October 2011 after more than seven years as CEO at War Child, during which time the charity achieved 400% growth in income, increased direct beneficiary reach by a factor of 12 and won a host of awards including the UN’s Grand Award.
Dr Pop is Director of Programmes at Hope and Homes for Children. She is one of the world’s leading experts in child protection and childcare issues related to institutionalisation and community based care.
Mark Cook founded Hope and Homes for Children with his wife Caroline in 1994. A soldier for more than 30 years, Mark left the army in 1993 to help child victims of the Balkans conflict. They started by rebuilding the Bjelave orphanage in Sarajevo but, recognising that there is no such thing as a ‘good’ orphanage, they went on to reverse their approach, closing institutions and returning children to families.
Imagine growing up not knowing what a family is. All children need a loving family and a place to call home.
Our pioneering project to reform childcare in Rwanda and close its first orphanage has attracted the attention of The Spectator magazine.
#unreportedworld We gave Oksana the little help she needed to turn things around and keep her family. Want to help? http://t.co/Rjew6tsI
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