At Kidsave, we believe in the potential inside every child. We strive to create change in our world so that all kids, everywhere, grow up in loving, supportive families, connected to caring adults.
Our programs help older kids in foster care and orphanages find meaningful, lasting connections with adults and families. Whether that relationship is with a mentor, a host family, or an adoptive forever family, our kids get a voice and a choice in who they get to know and who becomes their “family.”
Our programs operate in the U.S. and internationally in Ukraine, Sierra Leone, and Colombia.
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, our efforts in the Ukraine have shifted from training, mentoring, and family-finding to emergency evacuation and rescue. Our brave team in Ukraine started with only three Kidsave team members and has since grown to include over 300 selfless volunteers and a fleet of 60 vehicles. These heroes, known as “Angels of Hope” in Ukraine, risk their lives daily to continue to evacuate women, children, and families out of active combat zones and into safety.
Learn more and Donate to help us continue this life-saving work in Ukraine.
Kidsave’s innovative Connection Models help older kids find families in the U.S. and overseas.
Using these models, we are able to:
Demonstrate how older children to be adopted can safely move into permanent families and extended family relationships.
Involve members of the community as dedicated volunteers and champions for kids.
Train governments and advocate for change so more children worldwide can grow up in families.
OUR MODELS
FAMILY VISITS
Our innovative Family Visit Model lets relationships build organically between kids and families. By spending time together over weekends and during school breaks, the families and kids get to know each other to strengthen bonds and connections.
REUNIFICATION
Kidsave's reunification program in Sierra Leone focuses on reintegrating children separated from family growing up in orphanages, back into their communities, reuniting them with biological or extended family who are able to care for them.
SUPER MENTORING
Kidsave Mentorship Programs works to provide girls in Russia with mentoring relationships which helps them keep their babies. Individual and Corporate Mentorship Programs in Russia and Ukraine help orphans gain life and job skills and start an independent life.
WHERE WE WORK
CHANGE A LIFE
Your gifts of time and money can transform the life of a child.
100% of your money goes directly to helping kids.
Learn more about where your money goes here.
