Meet The Children

Children on Rainbow Farm

  • The first ten children to come and live in the Orange House, Rainbow Farm's first children's home, included four sets of siblings (two in each set) who had previously been separated, having been placed in different shelters.
  • What the children share about their pasts is unimaginable - young children living on the streets, children who have known neglect and hunger, all manner of abuse, insecurity and violence.
  • On Rainbow Farm, the children are part of a committed and loving family and also very much a part of the wider community of Rainbow Farm, which every month joins together in a 24 hour chain of prayer for one of the children, that their past hurts would be healed and their lives transformed to enable them to realise their true potential.

Why are Brazilian children in need?

  • Poor role models through culture of sex, violence and endemic alcoholism and drug misuse in the favelas
  • Insufficient social work support network
  • Long term adoption cases housed with short term emergency care
  • Little appetite for Brazilian based adoption over the age of 4 or for sibling groups

    What are we doing about it?

    If there is one phrase that sums up what we want to do, our vision and dream, it is this:

TO CHANGE CHILDRENS' LIVES PERMANENTLY

How?

  • Identifying orphaned/abandoned children who will never return home and are in insecure and inappropriate situations in temporary shelters and giving them homes
  • Putting pressure on the authorities to make decisions and resolve the children's legal status so that they are freed for adoption and to find secure homes
  • Actively seeking new families for these children, first nationally, second internationally
  • Developing a therapeutic way of working, drawn from international standards of excellence in childcare, set within a Christian framework of belief and practice
  • Nurturing a special and unique community on the farm - an 'extended family' that offers good opportunities and security
  • Offering work placements in one of our emerging business projects such as tile-making or honey production
  • Inviting children and workers from projects that work in favelas (slums) and with children at risk and in need to come to use the farm free of charge at weekends and holidays

     

Rainbow Farm is supported by The Rainbow Farm Trust - Registered Charity Number 1110081