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About Us
How did the Open Home Foundation get started?
The Open Home Foundation New Zealand was established in New
Zealand in 1977. It had a vision of the Christian
community opening their homes to care for children and young people in
need.
The vision developed to include provision of a range of
social work, foster care, counselling, parent education and youth services to
children and families where there are issues of care and protection. The work
began in Wellington and today operates out of most of the main regional centres
in New Zealand.
| In 1991 the Open Home Foundation New Zealand was invited to begin
a ministry in India. This led to the development of the Open Home
Foundation International, an organisation that is separate from, but
linked to the Open Home Foundation New Zealand. The Open Home
Foundation International currently works in partnership with people and
organisations in India, Romania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia and other countries.
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What is the vision of Open Home Foundation
International?
The Open Home Foundation International vision -
“Every child in the world will belong to a family where they
are safe and loved, receive good health care and education and know that they
are loved by God through Jesus?
Our vision states that:
- Children everywhere will enjoy their God given right to
belong to a family where they know they are precious, safe and loved.
- Families especially poor and broken families, will be
surrounded by a network of love which will empower them to develop strong and
nurturing relationships with their children.
- Wherever possible children will grow with their own
immediate or wider family where there is commitment to their nurture, security
and wellbeing.
- Children not able to live within their own family networks
will be found a committed and loving family with a non-relative family, while
still maintaining links with their family of origin.
- Children will receive health care, which ensures their
physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, and an education, which enables their
potential and giftedness to flower as they grow into adulthood.
- Children will be proud of their cultural inheritance, able
to fully participate within it, especially being fluent in their oral and
written language.
- Children will grow in the love of God as reflected in the
lives and teachings of those who care for them, so they know in the depth of
their being they are loved by God and His people.
- Children will be proud of who they are, and able to stand
tall in their families, in their culture, in their communities, in
God.
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