Children's Homes

Every child deserves a reason to smile

Abandoned and street children find a family, a school and a future.

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Smiling children cared for by the foundation

Jyothi and Preeti at the street children home

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Who we are

Transforming Communities Through Children

In India alone, more than 26 million children are abandoned and call the streets their home. We believe each one of them deserves love, a family and a reason to smile.

Our Children's Homes are not institutions. Children live with our staff as a family, in a normal community, attending the local school with their friends. They learn what it means to belong, and they receive the love and care of a mother and a father.

Homes for abandoned children, widows and the mentally ill
Schools, skills and health care for poor communities
Relief for families hit by disasters

More About Us Our Children's Homes

Children's Homes in Odisha

152

Children cared for as family

4572⁺

Children in our schools & centres

500⁺

Families reached after Cyclone Phailin

What drives us

Vision & Mission

Everything we do begins with one simple belief: no one should be left alone in their suffering.

Our Vision

A society where every abandoned child, widow, elder and mentally ill person is loved, cared for and restored, and can smile again.

Our Mission

To rescue and care for the poor and the forgotten, and to transform their communities through homes, health care, education, skills and relief.

What we do

Care that reaches every corner of life

Stories of restoration

From the streets, back home

Drag the slider to see the change love and care can bring.

Chandrapal after recovery, with his wife and children

Chandrapal when he was found on the street

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Mercy Home · Lucknow

Chandrapal was restored to his family

Chandrapal lost his mental balance, left his village and ended up living on the roadsides of Lucknow, eating leftovers from dustbins. Our staff found him under a flyover and brought him to Mercy Home.

With personal care and medical help he recovered completely. A month later he went home, and the whole village came out to see the change.

Sameeksha came home after a year

Her family believed she was dead. Our staff found Sameeksha wandering the streets of Lucknow in rags, mocked by people around her. At Mercy Home she recovered fully and gave birth to a baby boy.

When she knocked on her parents' door in the middle of the night, they could not believe their eyes. Today she lives a happy, normal life with her husband and family.

Read her story

Initially I thought my destiny was to become a labourer. But this Children's Home changed the reason of my life. Now I want to become a great man.

Amod DigalNidhiapalli Children's Home

I want to thank CFI and every generous donor who love and support us. Thank you, you are making us dream big.

Sarita BagChildren's Home, Koraput

Through the Sew and Sow centre I am fully transformed. Now I am not the old Pinki who was unemployed. People respect me.

PinkiSew & Sow Centre

I used to walk one kilometre to bring one bucket of water. Now I have pure drinking water. My family will be healthy and safe.

A motherShakalpur, Agra