Over the course of June 2020 members of the A&O network will, virtually and from the comfort of their own homes, walk, run and cycle their way around the world. The distance is circa 30,000 km and we want to raise £1.00 for every kilometre covered.

Follow our progress here: 

https://www.myvirtualmission.com/missions/49200/aound-the-world

For children in vulnerable families, Covid 19 is not just a health crisis, it places them at urgent risk of losing their loving homes and childhoods to the neglect of an orphanage. Children already confined to orphanages are facing increased levels of abuse, harm and infection due to staff shortages. Governments across the world have asked us to take sanctuary in our own homes to protect ourselves and those around us, but to do this you must have one, and so often the protection and safety of a family and a home is not a reality for these children.

Orphanages do not protect children. They harm them. Hope and Homes for Children is working towards a day when every child can grow up in a loving family. There are 8 million children across the world confined to soulless orphanages. Over 80% of them are not orphans. It doesn't have to be this way.

To support Hope and Homes for Children – where we have already raised over £1m –A&O has decided to extend the partnership by 10 months so that it will end in July 2021 instead of at the end of September this year. The children and families Hope and Homes for Children supports are even more vulnerable as a result of the virus. The extension will give us the opportunity to see through a number of fundraising initiatives that have been postponed or cancelled as a result of Covid-19 at a time when the funding environment for charities is increasingly uncertain.

Thank you for your support to this partnership which will change the lives of so many children, through giving them hope for a brighter future in the love and protection of a family.