REUNITING &
SUPPORTING FAMILIES
Their Future Today exists for one simple reason: children need families. In Sri Lanka, many children grow up in institutions not because they are orphaned, but because their families are struggling with poverty, crisis, or a lack of support. We believe poverty should never be the reason a child loses their family, and that every child has a human right to grow up safe, loved and protected in a family environment.
That’s why we work to reunite children who have been separated from their families and to prevent new separations before they happen. Alongside national childcare services, we help identify children in institutions who may have safe family connections. We then work carefully to locate parents or relatives, assess the situation, and understand what support is needed for a child to return home safely.
Where reunification is safe and appropriate, we support families through the legal process, help children settle into local schools, and provide practical support, including housing where needed, until the family can stand confidently on their own. Our aim is never short-term help that fades, but lasting stability built through dignity, safeguarding, and sustainable income.
Prevention is just as important. In communities where families are under severe pressure, we identify households at risk and respond early with the essentials that keep children safe at home: medical care, therapies, education support, and practical tools. Most importantly, after assessment, we focus on long-term solutions, helping families access job opportunities or income-generation support so they can become self-sufficient and independent.
Our pre-school programme is a vital part of this prevention work. It provides affordable (and sometimes free) childcare and early learning for single-parent households and working families, giving young children a safe, nurturing start, while enabling parents to work, earn, and keep their family together.
Everything we do is about ending institutionalisation in a way that is protective, practical and proven: strengthening families, supporting reunification, and building the alternatives, including foster care, so that every child can grow up where they belong: in a safe, loving family.