Whole Child International




Orphanages are an everyday reality for millions of abandoned, neglected, abused, and orphaned children worldwide. Few of these children ever have the opportunity to have a meaningful relationship with an adult, a critical factor in healthy human development.

And yet we know there are solutions.





Embracing the Future

Whole Child International works in existing children’s institutions to improve the quality of care and help prevent the bleak outcomes that await most children raised in the world’s orphanages.

As long as orphanages exist, we are committed to cost-effective interventions to help ensure the children within can develop the basic psychological tools they need to succeed in school, work, relationships, and families of their own.

We can close the cycle of despair that continues to keep generations of children from realizing their promise. Please consider joining us to provide these children with the basic human right of a chance at a bright future.

Whole Child International is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Please click here to donate.

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  • 12/19/2010 Notes from the Field December 2010
  • 2010 has brought many magical moments for the children that we are working with. A significant part of our program development over the past year was aimed at looking at what kind of environment we could create in resource ...
  • 10/22/2010 October 22nd 2010
  • (Director Lee of the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund with Karen Gordon, during a recent tip to Korea.) We are pleased to announce that the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund funded by the Korean government, and managed by the ...
  • 12/31/2009 2009 An Exciting Year
  • 2009 has been an exciting year at Whole Child. Working in orphanages of both Nicaragua and El Salvador, our year was filled with continuing our work in our existing orphanages while we staged new interventions in both countries. ...
  • 06/22/2009 Whole Child meets with First Lady of El Salvador
  • Our program leadership met today with the new First Lady of El Salvador, Dr. Vanda Pignato. The First Lady is a Brazilian-born lawyer and the wife of Mauricio Funes, who was sworn in as President on June 3. Over the course of an ...