Based on a study done by the Institut du Bien-Être Social et de Recherche (IBESR) in 2010, there were about 30,000 children living in orphanages in Haiti. More than 80% of these children were not true orphans, meaning they had at least one living parent, so in 2013, foster care became the official placement alternative for vulnerable children in Haiti.

Foster Care at Les Cayes

God’s Vision for Haiti’s Foster Care program exists in close partnership with IBESR, the local social services authorities. Together, we place vulnerable children who have been separated from their biological families due to parent death, abandonment, neglect, abuse, child exploitation etc into the homes of loving Christian foster families.

Foster care parents undergo rigorous evaluation, training and accreditation, and receive continuous education. Foster parents are amazing HEROES who are obedient to a special calling — they are not necessarily rich, they open their hearts and homes to stand for these innocent children who have no one to protect them and advocate for them, and they love them as their own.

It is important to note that in Haiti, IBESR does not permit foster parents to receive monthly financial support. Instead, IBESR highly encourages partnering organizations like ours to invest in foster children directly by assisting with their education, health, and wellness. How blessed we are by our foster parents’ commitment and by our partners who support them!

Currently, God’s Vision for Haiti is blessed to partner with 60 wonderful foster families, with many families taking in multiple children. There are another 10 families who have volunteered to serve as foster families, and we are so blessed by this outpouring of love as the need is so great! In August 2018, we placed the first two children, and now we have 50+ currently placed with these foster families. We’ve also served 100+ children who have been touched by the program including those who have been reunified with biological relatives. All of these numbers continue to grow!

God’s Vision for Haiti relies on our partners to support this critical program for Haiti’s most vulnerable children. Will you join us in providing safe, loving, Christian homes for them?

My donation is for “Family First (Foster & Biological)“