Our Mission:

The Alliance for Children Foundation is an international relief organization dedicated to improving the physical and emotional well being of abandoned children living in orphanages in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The Foundation's projects in medical care, basic needs, and education seek to heal, strengthen and empower the world's most vulnerable children, especially those who are less likely to be adopted due to age or special needs. Our programs provide these children with an otherwise impossible opportunity for a better future.

A foster care family in China sponsored by the Foundation

Video - Actress Marcia Gay Harden describes the Alliance For Children Foundation's projects to provide basic needs to orphan children world wide.

Video - Learn about Zach Lee's efforts to sponsor foster care in Laibin, the city in China where his adopted sister is from. Email him at zachlee4@gmail.com to learn more about this worthy cause!

Foster care for orphans

China

Medical and wellness care

Ecuador

Vitamin supplements

Russia

Special needs classroom

Vietnam

January, 2010 - URGENT! Haiti Earthquake Relief

Please support the orphans in Haiti who have been devastated by the Jan. 12th earthquake. Help is needed immediately! Visit our Make a Donation page and click the yellow Donate button to donate by credit card or Paypal, or send donations to "Haiti Earthquake Relief", Alliance For Children Foundation, 464 Hillside Avenue, Suite 300 Needham, MA 02494. Thank you!

December 19, 2009 - From Here to Hue Fundraiser

The group of adoptive parents who organized the From Here to Hue event in October held a holiday gift-wrapping fundraiser in conjunction with Henry Bear's Park toy store in Arlington, MA on Saturday, December 19th, 2009. They provided gift wrapping at the store in exchange for donations to the Alliance for Children Foundation's Vietnam program. Henry Bear's Park generously matched our total donations for the day.

November 2009 - Brotherly Love

Many of you read about the extraordinary young man Zach Lee in our 2008 Annual Appeal. He traveled to China last year and is now passionate about sponsoring a Sunbeam Village in Laibin China, the city where Zach's parents adopted his sister Zilana. He ran the New York Marathon on November 1st, 2009, to raise money for this wonderful cause. Take a few moments to view his documentary about his trip to China and please email him at zachlee4@gmail.com if you would like to donate to this cause.

August 27, 2009 - Urgent donations needed for Taiwan!
Typhoon Morakot dropped some 80 inches of rain on Taiwan this weekend, causing the worst flooding in five decades. Rivers have burst their banks, washing away buildings, roads and bridges, cutting power lines and flooding city streets as well as farmland. Losses to the farming industry are estimated at $152m. The orphanage we work with is in need of basic needs such as rice, cooking oil, masks, rain boots, etc. Please send your donation payable to the Alliance For Children Foundation, 464 Hillside Avenue Suite 300, Needham MA 02494 and mark your envelope: Taiwan Typhoon Relief. Thank you!

July 7, 2008 - In Loving Memory of Xiao Fu
Alliance is very sad to note that Chinese orphan Xiao Fu, who has been profiled on our web site (after meeting President Bush and Secretary Rice), passed away on July 7th, 2008, after suffering from a long illness. Xiao Fu was an inspirational individual and touched many lives around the world. Please visit our Make a Donation page if you wish to make a donation in his memory; all gifts will be used to help the orphans at his Hefei orphanage in China and to support the group he founded, Rights into Action for Disabled Youth, in Hefei.

April 13, 2008 - Ciccolo Sunbeam Village Opened!
Thanks to a generous donation by Massachusetts philanthropist Ray Ciccolo, the Alliance for Children Foundation was able to complete its efforts to open a 4th "Sunbeam Village" foster care center in Yulin, China. We are thrilled to announce that Ciccolo Sunbeam Village officially opened on April 13th, 2008, with 24 children moving in with their new foster families in apartments on the orphanage campus. Please click above to read our full announcement (in PDF format) for more information on this wonderful project to help Chinese orphans!

Dec. 1, 2007 - Wuzhou P & G Sunbeam Village Opened!
On December 1st, 2007, a new foster care "village" opened in Wuzhou, China. This project provides apartments for Chinese foster parents to live with groups of 5 orphans (most of whom have special needs) as stable families. It is modeled after the very successful Sunbeam Village project in Hefei that has been supported by the AFC Foundation for 5+ years, and was made possible by a generous $50,000 donation from Procter & Gamble’s Live, Learn and Thrive Global Cause. Visit our Wuzhou P & G Sunbeam Village project page to see photos of the new families and to read the first inspiring report on how these orphans, previously institutionalized, are now thriving in their new family setting.