Articles by Therese Osland

Families, not orphanages IMAGE Aurora

Families, not orphanages

February 01, 2020

Imagine being 12 years old and living in an orphanage in rural Kenya with no family around you and no other pathway in your life until you turn 18, when you must leave to find your own way in the world. You don’t really know your story and you don’t belong to anyone.  You are alone.

Families, not orphanages IMAGE Aurora

Families, not orphanages

March 01, 2017 Comments

During the ten years I worked in humanitarian and development programs in Asia and the Pacific, I saw increasing numbers of children in orphanages and began to ask ‘Why?’, knowing that orphanages no longer exist in Australia.