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Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

A weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them.

Presenter Myra Anubi speaks to reporters, experts and innovators to investigate how effective different solutions are, share their successes and inspire listeners with what is possible.

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People Fixing The World: Getting kids out of institutions

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Getting kids out of institutions

21/06/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Getting kids out of institutions

Meet the people finding families for some of the five million children living in care

Meet the people finding families for some of the five million children living in care.

More than five million children live in orphanages or other institutions - the vast majority in low or middle income countries.
 
Staff are often overstretched, poorly paid and don’t last long in the job, which leaves children deprived of one of the most important things for healthy development - a consistent, loving relationship.
 
Organisations around the world are now working hard to find these children the one thing they desperately need - a family. But in countries with high rates of poverty and fragile social work and foster care systems, it’s not always easy.
 
We visit a project in Colombia to meet the children, parents, and trainee foster carers whose lives are taking a very different turn. And in the UK, we look at a project giving foster families the support network they need.
 
Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporters: Megan Janetsky and Jo Mathys
Producer: Craig Langran
Executive producer: Tom Colls Production Coordinator: Ibtisam Zein
Sound Mix: Annie Gardiner Editor: Penny Murphy
 
Image: A mother and daughter in Colombia

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