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Care for Children was established as a charity in England & Wales in 1998 to support the Shanghai government in China to pioneer family placement care as a positive alternative to institutional care for orphaned and abandoned children (long-term foster care).

Funded initially by the UK's Department for International Development (DfID), Care for Children's pilot project was the first joint venture social welfare project between the British and Chinese governments. At that time, there was no direct translation for the word ‘Foster Care’ in mandarin. Robert was given an office in the Shanghai orphanage. The goal for the 3-year project was to place 300 children into local families, working in partnership with the Shanghai Civil Affairs.

From the offset, Dr. Glover OBE, Care for Children's Founder and Exectuive Director, established an approach that was to be key to Care for Children’s on-going relationship in China, and the success of the project work throughout the world. Rather than acting as a care-providing organisation that could only ever commit to hundreds, the goal was to provide skills and knowledge to local staff that could eventually impact many thousands of orphans in China.

The work has since grown to a nationwide project in China with repercussions throughout Asia, including current national projects with the Thailand and Vietname governments, respectively.