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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07/26/2012 A Week of Exploration with Dr. Ani Shabazian in Managua
Dr. Ani Shabazian, who leads the development of Wh0le Child’s programming, spent last week in Managua to observe and oversee our work in Nicaraguan orphanages as well as conduct sessions as part of our course at CIES-UNAN ...

06/20/2012 Los Pipitos Partnership Creates Great Toys and Much More
Generally the objects that best meet the needs of developmentally vulnerable children are the simplest – balls, blocks, bowls, and furnishings that provide just the right amount of stimulation to engage the imagination ...

05/27/2012 Highlights from the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund Meeting
The Whole Child International Nicaraguan program is co-funded by the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund, which in October 2010 awarded $500,000 to continue and deepen our work with vulnerable children in this second-poorest country in ...

05/15/2012 Small Change, Big Impact: A New Bathroom
Whole Child’s philosophy is that the building is not what’s important in a child’s upbringing. While other organizations may prefer to focus on capital building projects, we keep our own focus laser-like on ...

Continued thanks to the Inter-American Development Bank
Korean Poverty Reduction Fund of the Korean Government
for key funding of our Nicaragua program, and special
thanks to all our other generous donors.

Whole Child hosted a series of public addresses and conversations with
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles in 2010.
His Holiness and these conversations continue to inspire and inform
every aspect of our work. Please click for more information.

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