S9 Ep989: Rethinking Orphanages: Brandon Stiver
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Are orphanages helping orphans? Most Christians would say: obviously yes. But Brandon, who’s been working in orphan care for over a decade, says that they are actually perpetuating a system of care that is ultimately not helpful for orphans. Kids belong in families, and there are many other more healthy ways to help kids be raised in a family.
Brandon is the senior director of global programs and partnerships for 1MILLIONHOME–an organization aimed at revolutionizing orphan care through broadly shifting mindsets and scaling up proven community-based models that reunite children with families and eradicate practices that lead to family separation. Brandon has worked in the child welfare and nonprofit sectors for over twelve years. Before joining 1MILLIONHOME, he led a family based care and advocacy program in Tanzania for several years. Brandon has also worked at a Tanzanian orphanage, in the Californian foster care system, at various churches and teaches on issues facing at risk children at the university level. He has his Master’s Degree in Global Development and Justice and is passionate about indigenous leadership, community mobilization and seeing global entities come together to deliver the best care for at risk children.
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| 0:30.0 | part of the patreon community and keeping this show not only going but flourishing. My guest today |
| 0:35.5 | is Brandon. Stiver. I'm laughing because I kept calling him Brian, throw the podcast. Sorry, |
| 0:42.8 | again, Brandon for misnaming you like all throughout the podcast. I don't know why I did that. |
| 0:48.4 | Your name was right in front of me in the screen in your Skype account or whatever. So I don't |
| 0:53.0 | know. I'm blind. Brandon is the senior director of global programs and partnerships at one |
| 0:59.3 | million home. One million home is revolutionizing orphan care through broadly shifting mindsets |
| 1:05.1 | and scaling up proven community based models that reunite children with families. The conversation |
| 1:11.1 | today is about orphan care and the problematic relationships that orphanages have in the orphan |
| 1:22.8 | care conversation. This is going to be similar to the conversation I had a few months ago with |
| 1:27.9 | Alicia. Alicia, I'm going to butcher her last name so I'll just say Alicia from story |
| 1:36.5 | international. And yeah, it's one of those conversations that might be very eye opening to some of |
| 1:41.9 | you. It might be hard for some of you to hear. But hopefully we will always want to do the right |
| 1:49.4 | thing and do something that actually is helping the very people we're trying to help. And the role, |
| 1:54.5 | it's questionable whether orphanages are doing that. So I'm really excited for you to hear this |
| 1:59.8 | conversation. I learned a ton again about orphanages and orphan care by talking to Brian. Brian's |
| 2:05.0 | an awesome dude. Not a great time talking to you. So please welcome to show it for the first time. Brian's |
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