The Idea Camp

Eric Stowe

Eric Stowe is Founder and Director of A Child’s Right, an organization focused on clean water for children in institutional settings.

A Child’s Right’s mission is to change the lives and improve the health of vulnerable children around the world by providing clean safe water to orphanages, street shelters, rescue homes, schools and children’s hospitals. In four years we have provided more than 250,000 at-risk children safe water. Our largest project to date is to provide every orphanage in China clean water. We are currently at the half way mark!

In the past decade, Eric has worked in more than 200 orphanages in China as well as multiple others in a dozen countries. Prior to his work in the water sector, Eric worked in international adoptions and orphan relief for several years.

Twitter:  @EricStowe & @AChildsRight

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Eric will be leading a workshop/idea session on:

Working to Care for the Ones Who Will Not Leave the Orphanage

This idea session is a discussion on providing sustainable interventions and solutions to children who will not leave their orphanages.

Baby formula, clothing, and diapers are the most common intervention models promoted by US adoption agencies and individuals in the past. But in the larger scheme of things, they are very temporary and ultimately target only a small portion of the children within the orphanage.

This discussion is geared toward highlighting real examples and real struggles of groups doing long-term and difficult interventions on behalf of orphans.

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