Human Trafficking in Foster Care: Haiti v. United States

Now, where do you think these U.S. faith based, tax exempt, privatized, non-profits got the idea to

launder money through child welfare for human trafficking?

Why, of course, it was none other than the glorious Clinton Foundation!

If the Lumos foundation can engage in such extensive research in monitoring child trafficking through child welfare in Haiti, well, I guess they could do the same thing, right here in the United States....or just ask me.

Or, perhaps, they already did.

For those of you who are in that realm of cognitive dissonance when it comes to how "holier than thou" it is to do the work of God and save these poor, wretched souls of the innocent from a life of poverty, how about making money off it through the imperialistic morality parade.

In the U.S., we call these orphanages "foster care".

So, without further adieu, in my fuchsia spirit,  I shall provide my 2 cents for those people who have been duped to believe that moving a small human from a family, because they were made to be poor, is justified because they are doing the work of God, for a substantial amount of financial benefit, to prove that the peculiar institution of slavery has never, ever, gone away.

Today, slavery is coined in modern terminologies, called human trafficking under the guise of child welfare.

Haiti orphanages hotspot of child trafficking, abuse, says charity

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children living in hundreds of orphanages in Haiti suffer sexual and physical abuse and some are trafficked into orphanages for profit, according to a charity founded by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling.

Children living in thousands of foster homes and residential institutions in the U.S. suffer sexual and physical abuse and some are trafficked into other foster homes and re-homed through adoption for profit, according to Beverly Tran, the first person, ever to talk about privatization and its Medicaid fraud schemes in child welfare to fund political campaigns.

 Many of Haiti's orphanages use deception to recruit children from unknowing and impoverished parents - a form of trafficking - and use those children to attract donations, said the report released on Thursday by the London-based charity Lumos. 

All U.S. Child Protective Services and Child Placing Agencies are immune from prosecution, given the Right To Lie in a court of law and in the filing of fraudulent cost reimbursements to Medicaid.  A state child welfare system does not need to use deception in the acquisition of goods (the future foster child), as it is a multi-billion dollar industry, used to launder false claims of fraudulent Medicaid billing to fund this industry of child trafficking, I have been reporting on for more than 15 years.

Donors, mostly from the United States and faith-based organizations, give $70 million a year to one-third of Haiti's 750 orphanages, it said.

Donors, mostly from the United States and faith-based organizations, give billions in tax write offs a year to anyone who come up with the best child abuse propaganda to launder the ill-gotten gain from trafficking children of the poor.

The Children's Defense Fund has over $35 million in assets to print out propaganda to market the latest programs to acquire and traffic tiny humans for profit.

 About 30,000 children live in orphanages in Haiti, even though four in five of those children have at least one living parent, Lumos said.

There are millions of children who have been trafficked through child welfare in the U.S., with the majority of them having at least one living parent whose parental rights were terminated by a court of law, where that parent was prosecuted as "guilty until prove innocent" by people who were only doing the work of the tax exempt God.

Most orphanages are privately funded. Impoverished families are frequently duped into giving up their children by orphanage directors who hire so-called child-finders and local pastors who also seek out children, it said.

Most child welfare state contractors are privatized and the child welfare system researchers and policymakers are privately funded to solicit federal grants to generate more revenue maximization schemes from the trafficking of tiny humans and their use as human test subjects for the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, where they filed for Medicaid cost reimbursements to conduct the experiments and publish for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  States hire so-called child finders into positions called Child Protective Services.  Local pastors help encourage their congregations to report "abuse and neglect" through financial incentives in numerous forms and appointments to child welfare boards.

 In some cases, families had been paid $75 to give their children away, the report said.

In some cases, families have their assets seized in court judgments to pay child support to the States, where the States collect Title IV-D while billing for Title IV-E and Medicaid, contemporaneously.

 "Many parents are deceived into giving up their children, purely so that unscrupulous individuals can make a profit," said Lumos Chief Executive Georgette Mulheir in a statement.

Many parents are told to give up their children to foster care because they have no other choice, just to ensure a Child Placing Agency can meet its monthly quota to keep its doors open and paychecks flowing.

 "Well-intended donors give vast sums to orphanages.

Well-intended donors give vast sums of money to foster care and adoption programs in the U.S. for tax write offs and money laundering.

But 80 percent of children living there are not orphans," she said.

But over 80 percent of children in U.S. foster care and adoption are not orphans.

 Taking children from their parents through deception, coercion or purchase is a form of human trafficking going largely unchecked, said the report released at Haiti's first anti-trafficking conference this week in Port-au-Prince.

Taking children from their parents through false claims, deception, coercion, threats or just being poor is human trafficking as it is exempt and excluded from any form of external scrutiny.

 In a country where one in four people lives on $1.23 a day, extreme poverty drives families to sell or give their children to orphanages on false promises they will receive an education, food or care, Lumos said. Lumos interviewed 44 children who had been raised in orphanages as well as former orphanage volunteers, health care workers and government officials.

In the United States, where child poverty is the highest for developed nations and continues to increase with each passing day, extreme poverty drives Child Protective Services to remove children and place them in foster care on promises they will receive an education, food or care.  I have listened to the blood curdling screams of hundreds of children in foster care, where some did not live to make it out the child welfare system, as well as the cries of parents, grandparents, and anyone else of a degree of sangunitity or affinity to these trafficked tiny humans, as well as current and former employees, volunteers and government officials affiliated with the U.S. Child Welfare System.

 Some children reported beatings and cold water being dumped on toddlers who were forced to sleep on an orphanage floor.

There is a multitude of reports, public testimonies in governmental hearings, and court filings, documenting children being beaten, raped, drugged, tortured, murdered, attempted & successful suicide, who were forced to live in the most inhumane conditions of foster care.

 One 19-year-old man with a physical disability told Lumos he was regularly beaten at an orphanage that he left in 2015."

One 23-year old man can testify, in a court of law, or in a congressional hearing, on the bloody beatings, torture, medical experimentation, rapes in a child welfare institution in the name of God.

They would use a stick or an electric cord to hit you, wherever on your body," he said.

They would use prone restraints then put you in a 3 feet by 5 feet ceramic room, with an hole in the floor, for days, with the lights on, taunting over the intercom if you complained about being raped and beaten.

"Sometimes they would hit you and you'd bleed."

Sometimes they would hit him until he died, which happened multiple times.

 Lumos said it found evidence in the past two years that sexual abuse in orphanages occurs, saying such cases "rarely come to light."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not maintain records on sexual abuse in foster care.

Even if such cases are reported and investigated, they rarely result in justice for victims, it said.

Even if such cases are reported and investigated, the U.S. Department of Justice nor the States Attorney General will lift a damn finger to take down these nefarious people in authority who have nefariously promulgated the reanimation of the peculiar institution.

(Ok, I am going to give my #Superfans a pass because I know you know, that I know you know, that I know.)

 The charity urged donors to redirect funds away from Haiti's orphanages.

I am flat out saying to shut the entire thing down by snatching the federal grants, putting the States child welfare systems in federal receivership, and prosecuting each and ever human who has intentionally benefitted from personal inurement of public office advocating for the U.S. system of human trafficking under the guise of child welfare.

 It suggested spending money instead on improving foster care and local adoption programs and helping families look after their children by funding schooling and housing projects.

I am stating that the people be made whole, compensated for the theft of their property and children.

 Lumos founder Rowling is author of the hugely popular Harry Potter fantasy book series.

Beverly Tran is on a mission...

Lumos Foundation - Funding Haitian Orphanages, June 17, 2017 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Wikileaks Uncovers Child Trafficking In Haiti

Snatching children from the poor who traditionally hail from the nations of "darker persuasions" in the name of God is just the oldest form of survival.

The proper term of snatching kids from parents is called "termination of parental rights" for "abuse and neglect" which are in the "best interests of the child", just because they are poor.

This is foster care.

Welcome to the unraveling of child welfare fraud, not just in Haiti, not just in the U.S., but the entire world.

This is the Clinton Global Initiative.

This is the Adoption and Families Safe Act.

This is privatization.

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/32/323249_-os-haiti-us-legal-adviser-to-u-s-haiti-missionaries.html

The child snatchers: Special report from Haiti on the U.S. missionaries accused of 'stealing orphans' and why - most shockingly of all - their parents say they would give them away again

Four women suspected of being involved in an illegal adoption scheme
are being held at behind bars at Port-au-Prince

We found Benatide's mother high up a mountain in a tiny house with half the roof ripped off by the earthquake and scrawny chickens pecking in the dust under a fierce Haitian sun.

For longer than she cares to remember, it has been a struggle to keep her three children on the few pounds a week she makes from selling vegetables which grow on the scrap of land surrounding her home.

But now Adrienne Poulime has one less mouth to feed.

Ten days ago she gave away her youngest daughter, 12-year-old Benatide, to a group of American Baptists who promised to give her a better life abroad by finding a Christian family to adopt her.

'There was nothing left for the girl here after the earthquake last month,' says Adrienne simply as she sits on a pile of rubble, overlooking the country's devastated capital, Port-au-Prince, below in the valley. 'Benatide's school has shut down.

'We didn't have enough food to put on the table for everyone. It was bad in Haiti before the earthquake - now it's far worse. I let her go because I hoped that one day she would do well and come back and help the family.'

She clasps the hands of her other children, Alain, 18, and daughter, Carline, 21, as we talk of Benatide, who is now living at the international SOS children's refuge 20 miles away from her family's village of Calebasse.

She was taken there by Haitian police the Friday before last, just after she and 32 other children - including 19 from her village - were discovered being spirited out of the country by the Baptists from churches in Idaho, Utah and Texas.

On Thursday, the five men and five women Baptists, led by a 40-year-old Idaho businesswoman called Laura Silsby, were charged with child abduction and criminal conspiracy. If convicted, they face lengthy terms in a Haitian prison.

Benatide Poulime, 12, is one of the
Haiti 'orphans' taken by a group of baptists

Meanwhile, the children remain at the refuge - and have not been returned to their homes while an investigation goes on into their parents' decision to give them up.

The authorities, growing increasingly alarmed at the numbers of Haitian children disappearing overseas, want to find out if they were coerced into handing them over or did so willingly.

Since the earthquake on January 12, 300 children have been given to new families in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands. More adoptions are in the pipeline, many arranged by orphanages in Haiti. It is estimated that 7,000 children could leave the country over the next year. 

In many of the cases, the adoptive parents have not met the children before choosing them - they have simply picked them from photographs.

To speed up the adoptions, the White House has approved a fast-tracking system to relieve Haiti's orphanages, which are overflowing with parentless and lost children since the earthquake.

Laura Silsby, left, and Charisa Coulter, pictured \
after they were arrested trying to cross into the
Dominican Republic with a busload of 33 children

Once children arrive in America and are introduced to their family at the airport, they are taken to special centres where lawyers are on hand to complete adoption papers in a process that can take just half an hour.

And, of course, there is no shortage of youngsters available. It is estimated that 300,000 children in Haiti lost one parent, or both, in the earthquake.

A large number of Haiti orphanages were also destroyed, leaving a shortage of beds for orphans who now wander the streets in the devastated city, adding pressure to ramp up the foreign adoptions. To increase the problem, plenty of parents like Adrienne believe sending their children abroad from one of poorest countries in the world is the best gift they can give.

Meanwhile, child traffickers have begun to operate in Port-au-Prince. They are plucking children from the streets or smuggling them out of orphanages, before offering them to foreigners for as little as £65.

Haitian social workers and international aid organisations fear that many will be sold into paedophile rings in Europe and America, or be traded into domestic slavery in the third world.

The result of all this is that Haiti is haemorrhaging its young. It is a sad postscript to the tragedy, in which 200,000 people were killed as houses, supermarkets and entire shopping streets crumbled to the ground.

Thousands upon thousands of those made homeless are still living in tented towns in the city, including one in the garden of the presidential palace.

Yet despite the new vulnerability of these children, Heather Paul, the international head of the charity SOS Children's Villages, which runs the refuge now caring for Benatide, says foreign adoptions should be only a last resort when 'every effort has been made to reunite a child with relatives or provide suitable care in Haiti'.

She added: 'Sometimes Americans think that children are better off in a middle-class environment than being with their own family because they are impoverished. I don't believe that. Children love their own families.'

That is certainly the case with Benatide. When I met her at the refuge, she whispered to me: 'I want to go home. Please tell them to come and get me.' After all, this family has been through a lot together.

When the earthquake struck, they ran in horror from their house and scrambled up the steep path to the main road that leads to Port-au-Prince. There, they watched as buildings all over Calebasse began to crumble.

Seven of the 33 children taken by the missionaries. Authorities
believe none of the children were in fact orphans

Only later, when it had got dark, did the Poulime family dare walk back down to see the damage. The kitchen and the bedrooms had all disappeared. A crack six inches wide snaked down the wall at the front. The tin roof had lifted off and only one room was left intact.

However, Benatide's family got on with their lives. That was until ten days later when the U.S. Baptists arrived at Calebasse and began knocking on doors. They handed out flyers saying they wanted to 'help children who have lost their mother and father in the earthquake or have no one to love and care for them'.

The flyers said, inaccurately, that the group had the Haitian government's permission to take 100 children abroad to the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti.

They said they had an orphanage in a former seaside hotel where the children would have a school, football pitch and even a swimming pool.

Laura Silsby, who set up a U.S. charity called New Life Children's Refuge to help Haitian children the instant the disaster struck, has said from her prison cell in Haiti that adoption was not in her mind when she trawled the earthquake zone for children.

She says she intended to help 'only those children that needed us most, that had lost either both their mother and father, or had lost one of their parents and the other had abandoned them'.

But, revealingly, the mission statement of her New Life organisation specifically says its purpose was to get Haitian children for adoption in the U.S.. Some parents of the 33 children were told that living in the Dominican Republic would be a first step towards their offspring going to new families in America.

Furthermore, far from being orphans, the Mail has been told that none of the 33 children are parentless or abandoned. All of them have a mother or father - often both, including Benatide, whose farmer father is working elsewhere in Haiti, but returns home to visit the family.

Whatever the Baptist group's exact motives, one of their persuasive flyers ended up with Adrienne Poulime.

'It made me want the best for the children. Alain and Carline were too old to go - that meant it had to be Benatide. We talked about it in the family for about a week. Then I told the Baptists I wanted her name put on their list. I explained it to Benatide and she was very excited.'

So on the Thursday before last, she walked to the waiting bus with her daughter. Benatide had only the clothes she was wearing. Her seven-year-old cousin Alantina was also on the bus. With her hand in her pocket, Benatide held on to a piece of paper on which her brother Alain had written his mobile phone number.

In front of Benatide on the bus were the daughters of Lely Laurentus - Soraya, four, and Leila, five, who had grown up in Calebasse, too.

The earthquake had left the family homeless, and Lely thought this was a chance to give them a new start. He admits the two girls were too young to understand what was happening.

But, he says, solemnly: 'I didn't want them to suffer anymore. I didn't pack any of their things, not even their teddy bears. The American woman said she had enough clothes, toys and snacks for the children. I trusted her because she said they were going to a better place. My last words to my children were: "Please remember me."'

As the bus moved away, one little girl, ten-year-old Loundiny Jovan, was near to tears. She called out to her mother Melanie through the window: 'Bye-bye and please pray for me.' Then they were gone.

It was 24 hours later, the Friday before last, that the Poulime family heard on the radio that a busload of Haitian children had been stopped at the border. It turned out the Baptists had no documentation for the children and had breached an order that children going overseas for adoption must receive written permission from the prime minister.

Next morning, Benatide rang her brother Alain. She said three police vans had picked the children up from the border and driven them back to Port-au-Prince, where she had spent the night at the SOS village.

This week Georg Willeit, an SOS worker who welcomed the children there, said they are emotionally traumatised from their experience.

One boy has told staff he will never go back to his mother because she gave him away. Another girl talks repeatedly about the bus journey, before bursting into tears. As for Benatide, a lot of the time she stays silent and deep in thought. Every day, she begs to make a call to her brother.

How long it will take her and the others to recover, no one knows. As Mr Willeit says: 'The children must be made to feel safe again. They need a routine with care and attention given to them. They know they were given away by their mothers or fathers.

'They will not forget that for a long time, if ever. They should grow up in Haiti knowing their own roots and customs with family members around. They ought not be sent to live in another country.'

Of course, not everyone would agree with him. The arrested Baptists refuse to admit they did anything wrong.

Laura Silsby, who runs a personal shopping company and has a chequered financial history, is scheduled to appear in front of a U.S. judge in an unfair dismissal case involving one of her former employees this week. But she will not make that date, as she remains locked up in a squalid, mosquito-ridden jail on the island until the case against her, and her fellow Baptists, is heard.

The situation is viewed so seriously by the Americans that former President Bill Clinton, now a United Nations special envoy, has arrived in Haiti to negotiate a solution.

Most of the Baptists charged worship at the Central Valley Church in Meridian, Idaho, where the pastor Clint Henry says their motives were 'upright and pure'.

Many religious organisations are at work in Haiti, including many fundamental Christian ministries such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, run by the Mormons, who have paid for flights to airlift children from Port-au-Prince to America.

Roman Catholic churches have also taken Haitian children - some toddlers in nappies - to the U.S..

Up to 300,000 children are believed to have been orphaned by the Haiti quake

They are feeding an insatiable demand for children from white American families with a conservative Christian outlook. The U.S. churches operate hand-in-hand with hundreds of Haiti orphanages, many of which are run by like-minded pastors. The deal is simple: the orphanages provide the children, and the churches provide the parents.

The result is that the vast majority of Haitian children are going to families in Bible-belt states. The phenomenon has led to extraordinary scenes at Miami airport, which is where many first meet the children.

The adoptive parents start screaming, then hugging, kissing and crying over their new children, who often look bewildered as they are handed Mickey Mouse dolls and bags of popcorn as welcome presents.

With so many children involved, things go wrong. After one airlift to Miami, five children were traumatised when no parents turned up to meet them. And in another case, a threeyearold boy was left in tears after his adoptive parents changed their mind at the last minute about having him. He is now in the care of American social services.

Many think the real purpose of the fundamentalists' involvement in the huge-scale adoptions is religious conversion. Some families have taken four or five children.

Certainly, the literature of His House, a large Christian orphanage in Miami which is coordinating adoptions, says it aims to turn children into 'Christ-like beings'.

Others question whether black children from a Caribbean island should be adopted at all by white parents who know little about the children's culture and cannot speak their languages, French and Creole.

Many predict there will be enormous difficulties within the 'ready-made' families as time goes on, even though many Haitian children have the same religious background.

But Iris Marrero, the director of His House in Miami, which at 600 miles away is the closest point in America to Haiti, insists there is nothing sinister about the adoptions.

Staff at His House have matched 150 Haitian children to American families in the past two weeks. One night, a plane arrived from Port-au-Prince at midnight in Miami and all 90 children on board had been formally adopted by 5.30am. 'I pray that their families will love them for ever,' Mrs Marrero told the Mail earnestly.

As for Benatide, her future is yet to be decided. With the other 32 children, she is now in limbo at the SOS refuge.

SOS Children's Village www.soschildren.org

Adrienne is unrepentant about giving her daughter away. When I ask her if she would do it again, she answers quickly in a quiet voice: 'Yes, of course, and so would you if your child lived in Haiti.'

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Will The Lumos Foundation Push Into Global Child Welfare Include The U.S.?

The recent illumination of the Clinton Global Initiative and its child welfare programs in Haiti and

The Lumos Foundation

 Africa, along with the Foundation's move to restructure, has piqued my interest into a foreshadowing of nonprofit oversight.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is also demonstrating an interest in addressing the issues surrounding child welfare, but if it is willing to deal with the U.S. child welfare system, is another story which has yet to be written.

If the Lumos Foundation can take on such a daunting task as to end the orphanage system in Haiti, where there are plans to close at least 150 of such institutions, then, one can only hope that this type of action can be imported to address similar ills right here in our own backyard in how we deal with children in poverty.

The 'similar ills' of which I refer to in the U.S. child welfare system deal with revenue maximization schemes, lack of oversight, devoid of civil rights, codification of poverty as abuse and neglect, and the omission of reunification, termination and reinstatement of parental rights.

Think about it:  If foster care wouldn't be good enough for your child or a child you love, why would it be good enough for a child in the U.S.?

Stay tuned.

Ten Years Later: Lumos Foundation’s Push into Global Child Welfare

Think about it: If an orphanage wouldn’t be good enough for your child or a child you love, why would it be good enough for a child in Haiti, or anywhere else in the world?

This question is at the center of the work Lumos, the nonprofit started by J.K. Rowling in 2005, has been doing for over a decade. Named for the light-giving spell featured in the Harry Potter books, Lumos works to redirect the care of disadvantaged children away from orphanages and toward more supportive settings with their families or in the community.

Through advocacy, coalition-building and on-the-ground implementation of changes to the care provided for children without families, Lumos is helping to establish new approaches to global child welfare. These new approaches include reunifying institutionalized children with their extended families and providing more support to those families to remain together, and creating healthier community-based placements for children whose parents are truly not able to care for them.

As we reported last September, five months after Lumos officially opened its U.S. office in April 2015, the goal is to end the institutionalization of children by 2050. It’s an ambitious goal, and one the organization has already made steady progress on, moving forward with strategies on several fronts. Recently I caught up with Georgette Mulheir, CEO of Lumos, to find out how progress is going.

In Haiti this work is particularly needed; poverty is high, and Mulheir said others warned them work there would be very difficult.

“People told us not to go to Haiti,” said Mulheir, which gave Lumos all the more reason to invest its time, resources and expertise there. Over 32,000 children reside in orphanages in Haiti; so far, Lumos has begun work with two institutions to move children into families and communities.

“We’ve got lots of really well-intentioned but misguided people who are putting money into orphanages in Haiti and what we want them to do is not to stop supporting Haiti, but to look at whether they can do something different with their financial and human resources,” Mulheir said.

“Could they be helping to do economic strengthening with those families so those families can keep their children?”

Lumos has been meeting with the government of Haiti, which has now established a national action plan to get children out of institutions and to establish community-based services.

Mulheir emphasized the importance of alliances in ending the practice of putting kids into orphanages. She sits on the governing council of the Global Alliance for Children (GAC), an organization that mobilizes targeted investments in childhood as a core component of a nation’s social and economic progress. GAC has been a major player in bringing together the resources and helping to collaborate on this work, she said.

About to visit Haiti, Mulheir expects to meet with a number of individuals and groups, including staff from the Clinton Foundation, to talk about ways in which their strategic agendas may intersect.

The Clinton Foundation began work in the island nations several years ago, and is now making a bigger push with its climate and women’s empowerment agenda there by launching the Women in Island Leadership Network. The network brings together young leaders in the STEM fields in the island nations, and helps them mentor and build skills to rise in leadership roles.

Mulheir has been impressed with the warm reception Lumos has received from U.S. nonprofits and foundations. She pointed to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in particular, which Lumos has met with to discuss strategy and learn from its “groundbreaking strategies for how to help local government officials change their policies.”

Another significant piece of Lumos’ strategy in coming to the United States involves forming alliances with religious organizations that support orphanages, and helping them to fund alternatives. Much of the funding of orphanages in the Caribbean comes from the evangelical Christian church community, and so Lumos is working with faith-based organizations–including the Faith to Action Initiative and the Christian Alliance for Orphans–and is also having discussions with Catholic Relief Services. Mulheir said one of the goals is to “get very senior members of different churches around the world to highlight this issue and make sure their congregations are aware that the best of intentions in orphanages are not going to result in the best of outcomes.”

“A century ago, the U.S. was challenging the orphanage model,” Mulheir said. “Western Europe got rid of this system decades ago,” she added. “But now we’re exporting this outdated model to other countries.”

Another key strategy that Lumos is using to end orphanages involves getting the European Union to change its funding regulations. The European Union had been spending money on renovating institutions that served as orphanages when Lumos began advocacy about six years ago to get them to end that work and invest in better options for kids.

“Now it’s a very high priority for the EU,” Mulheir said. As of January 2015, the EU is prohibited from spending EU money on the renovation of institutions, and instead the EU is investing in community-based care.

Also high on the strategic agenda for Lumos are the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, which, despite their promise of leaving no one behind, do not include children in institutional care, or children without families. Mulheir said Lumos is continuing to advocate for data collection on children without families, since without any effort to count these children, there is no way to measure their progress on health and education or other outcomes.

Within the decade since its founding, Lumos has helped guide a historic shift away from orphanages and toward healthier living situations for vulnerable children. As the organization connects more with philanthropy’s power brokers in the U.S., and expands into Latin and Caribbean regions, it continues to do systems-level advocacy and cross-sector collaborative work to change the way children without families are treated, and raise the bar for providing quality care for the most vulnerable children across the globe.

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