HOME • Caring Family Foundation • Kyrgyz Republic
Some children have no parents, and nowhere safe to go.
Abandoned. Abused. Trafficked. Left to survive alone in harsh conditions.
We’re opening a family home for them in the Kyrgyz Republic.
A family home in the Kyrgyz Republic
Not an institution. A house. A table. A garden. A family.
In the Kyrgyz Republic, Caring Family Foundation is starting up a family-style children’s home — a place where children who need one can grow up safe with love, life skills, and belonging.
We are in the opening season. First we file and prepare. Our departure from the U.S. is planned for late May or early June 2027. Then we become neighbors. Children come when the home is ready — by 2029, or sooner.
$150,000 lets us begin.
$550,000 means the home is ready when they arrive.
Monthly gifts are how a home eats. A one-time gift helps us begin. Even a dollar makes a difference.
Why Nicola
Nicola spent years inside St. Petersburg orphanages, then a village children’s home in Kyrgyzstan. Administrators let her in when other foreign groups rarely got that access, because they trusted her. Her organization, Hope for Tomorrow, became a US nonprofit in 2009. Now she and Drew are building Caring Family — a home of their own.
Before there was a Caring Family home, Nicola was already teaching orphans life skills in family settings, and serving children most at risk of being left behind.
She still went to Kyrgyzstan in 2010 even when the country was in unrest. She ran dental trips until village nurses said those children had the best teeth in town. Orphan graduates still call her. That is years of showing up — not a plan on paper.
Drew spent about a year and a half in rural Guyana as a boy. That stretch changed how he sees the world. In 2018, after they married, he went with Nicola to the village children’s home where she had volunteered in Kyrgyzstan. He saw the work first-hand and did not want to leave. He stands with her in opening this home.
Gifts on this site are received by Hope for Tomorrow, a US 501(c)(3), and go to Caring Family’s home in the Kyrgyz Republic until Caring Family can receive them directly. Receipts are tax-deductible in the US to the extent allowed by law.
We do not put children’s names or faces on this site. Their stories stay private.