A Family for Every Orphan

Our vision is a global community focused on ending orphanhood by helping every child to grow up in a permanent, stable, and loving family in their home country. It’s our goal to advocate for the fatherless by giving children who’ve been silenced a voice and to shine light on those living in darkness.

We’ve created a sustainable approach through partnering with national orphan care movements in nine countries. These carefully vetted in-country partners are committed to best practices, believe in collaboration, and understand their own culture’s needs and solutions to see children in families. AFFEO’s goal is to support and strengthen our in-country partners through funding, help with program strategy and development, and accountability so they can impact more lives.

Our role is to fundraise for programs that are carried out by nationally-led ministries and non-profit organizations who have demonstrated integrity, competence and compassion. We call these groups our international partners. We believe strongly that our international partners, who understand best their respective cultures and its needs concerning adoption and foster care, are the ones who should be leading the programs within their nations. They communicate with us about specific project and program needs and we work to provide funding to help fuel their efforts.

Our board of directors, advisory council, and staff is a team of highly dedicated individuals who demonstrate a wide array of talents and skills that they use to serve A Family for Every Orphan. Many of which have adopted siblings or adopted children of their own which fuels their passion for providing families for orphan children. A Family for Every Orphan employs two Program Directors who work directly with our international partners to ensure constant communication and support between the two parties.

In just the past year, AFFEO together with our partners helped 30,634 children and families, navigated legal barriers to adoption, offered adoption support and counseling to 9,190 parents, distributed over 68,000 adoption resources, trained 2,261 social workers, and helped individual families in their quest to adopt, foster or reunify by providing specific material support.