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- Did you know 80% of children in orphanages have at least one biological parent who could care for them given the right support? Help keep these families together, support #familiesNOTinstitutions. More information: http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions
- Most children living in institutions, like orphanages, have a family they love and a family that wants to care for them – they just need a little support. Help keep them together by supporting organisations that work with families, rather than separating them. More information: http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions
- Create brighter futures by joining @CCTCambodia’s Make It Possible Team. Your support will help vulnerable children and their families to break the cycle of poverty together by providing greater access to vital social, health and education services – while also ensuring children can stay living in a family (and out of harmful institutions). Sign up here: http://bit.ly/CCTMakeItPossible
- Decades of international research shows institution, like orphanages, harms children. Support organisations that keep families together – support #familiesNOTinstitutions. Learn more: http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions
- The global orphanage crisis is being fuelled by well-meaning people donating to orphanages with the misguided belief that they are helping the children. Don’t fall into the trap – learn before you help: http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions
- Thinking of visiting or volunteering at an orphanage? Read this first: http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions
- Looking to support a children’s organisation? Make sure they uphold best practice by asking these questions: http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions #familiesNOTinstitutions @CCTCambodia
- There are no longer orphanages in the developed world because we know of the damage that institutionalisation has on a child’s development http://bit.ly/thinkchildsafe #familiesNOTinstitutions @CCTCambodia
- Until donations are redirected away from orphanages towards family support programs, children will continue to be separated from family, trafficked and exploited. Support #familiesNOTinstitutions http://bit.ly/familiesNOTinstitutions
- Children should never be treated as tourist attractions http://bit.ly/problemswithorphanagetourism @CCTCambodia #familiesNOTinstitutions