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"I have personally witnessed the happiness brought by China’s foster care project. In the last 15 years we have gone through a long and eventful journey. If you work alone you can work fast; if you work together you can work far."
Mme. Wong, Chinese Association of Social Workers. Oct 2018
Project Overview

Since 1998, Care for Children has pioneered family-based care in China, helping transform their child welfare system. Foster care now represents one of the primary methods of care for orphaned and vulnerable children.

Working under the Ministry of Civil Affairs with the Chinese Association of Social Workers, Care for Children has trained thousands of family placement workers throughout the country to provide long-term support to children and the families they join, and hundreds of thousands of children’s lives have been transformed.

In 2021 the China project successfully moved into a new era of work designed to pioneer Care for Children’s digitalisation developments that are critical for our new vision to see ‘a world of children in families’.

This will also ensure that China has a sustainable, replicable model of care, ensuring that generations of orphaned and abandoned children will continue to benefit from Care for Children’s work in China.

Project Facts
Established 1998
Government partner China Social Work Association (Ministry of Civil Affairs)
Location National
Total Orphanages trained 271
Project Stage 4 of 4: Digitalisation and Legacy (2021 onwards)
Our Stories
Everything we do is working towards the life-changing opportunity for children to be placed into local, loving families. Read about the incredible impact this can have for children.
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