There is a big difference between the type of foster care in the West and the practice in developing countries.

Most children in the West come into care through some form of abuse in the past, and may have contact with their natural families. Children in a developing country, many of who are disabled, come into care through abandonment because of their disability or gender, so their traumas are very different. They have no contact with their natural families, therefore use long term foster care (permanence) for placing children with disabilities, is necessity. This is because the foster parents need added support and training to be able to care for the child. We needed to encourage attachment and bonding between the child and it's substitute parents as well as continue to monitor and support the families.

Care for Children exists to relieve abandoned and orphaned children by the introduction of strategic initiatives in child care practice. Their vision is to see one million needy children in families by 2010. Care for Children have set up an extremely successful foster care programme in China and are now, with the blessing of the Thai government, setting up a similar programme in Thailand. Six Senses are pleased to be associated with Care for Children and its founder Mr. Robert Glover, who just received an OBE for his contributions to society. One of the beauties of Care for Children is that compared to many NGOs they have extremely low administrative costs, such that $20 will typically lead to one child finding foster parents, changing their life forever.