Our impact
What one year of care looks like
The figures below cover the 2025 programme year. They are annual and current figures, not lifetime totals, and we publish them as they are — including the boys who left us before a plan was complete.
2025 in numbers
- 101
- boys in care at the start of 2025
- 105
- new admissions during 2025
- 65
- boys reintegrated with family in 2025
- 40
- boys who left the Home on their own
- 206
- children served in total in 2025
Carried over from the previous year.
Boys received into the Home in-year.
Returned home after tracing, assessment and preparation.
Left before a placement plan was completed.
Start-of-year boys plus new admissions.
Around 100 boys are in our care at any one time. Figures are drawn from the Home's own programme records for 2025.
Reading the numbers
Reintegration is the measure that matters
Sixty-five boys returning to family in a single year is the clearest sign that the programme works. Each of those returns represents months of care, schooling, counselling, tracing across provinces, and conversations with relatives, and a gradual, evaluated return home.
We do not count a boy as a success simply because he was admitted. What we watch is whether he is safe, in school, and — where possible — back with people who belong to him.
Challenges and safeguarding
Some boys leave before they are ready
In 2025, 40 boys left the Home on their own before a placement plan was completed. For children who have survived on the street, the pull of familiar places, older peers and substance abuse is strong, and settling into structure takes time. We treat every departure as a safeguarding matter: it is recorded, social welfare and, where appropriate, the police are informed, and outreach workers look for the boy so that he can be welcomed back. Many do come back.
Our other ongoing challenges are practical: unpredictable funding, rising food and school costs, limited residential space as the number of boys needing care grows, and the distances involved in tracing families and carefully preparing for a boy’s return home. We are therefore exploring the possibility of adding several more rooms to increase our accommodation capacity.
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