Our Founder's Story

In 2009, Jenny Martin, a Registered Nurse (now, Development Practitioner), volunteered for two months at an orphanage in rural Uganda.

The conditions at the orphanage deplorable. The twenty-four children were supervised by one around the clock caregiver, ate one meal a day and were not enrolled in school.  

Compelled to help the children, Jenny rallied the support of Canadian donors, who over the next two years worked to improve life at the orphanage. They enrolled the children in school, provided meals, covered medical care and renovated the children's dormitory. 

However, the children continued to struggle. 

There was one thing they wanted above everything else: they wanted their families. 

Unfortunately, the Director did not want the children to return home. 

Jenny was determined.

She abandoned the orphanage, and set out on her own. 

In 2012 she started a child welfare organization in Uganda that would see the children reunited with their parents or next of kin. 

However, it was not enough. 

With 8 million children living in orphanages and deprived of their families worldwide, she had to do something. In 20.., she started We Are Home Free, a charity dedicated to freeing children from orphanages around the world. 

Together, ....