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Marva & Lionel’s 30-Year Fostering Journey
Foster Parent Stories
Read Marva and Lionel’s inspiring story of fostering over 200 children across 30 years. Learn how they supported teenagers and built lifelong connections.
Nealmah’s Fostering Story
Foster Parent Stories
At ACS we care for children from many different cultural and faith backgrounds. Read Nealmah’s fostering story as she discusses her success as a single foster parent caring for children from different backgrounds.
Hana Tedese’s Fostering Story
Foster Parent Stories
Hana has been fostering with ACS since 2021. Originally from Ethiopia, her own experience has given her the understanding and empathy to help change the lives of unaccompanied sanctuary seeking children. Read her story.
Foster Mum Shagufta on fostering with faith and taking her foster children to Mecca
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Shagufta, alongside her husband Sabtain, have been providing children in need of loving homes in Lancashire with care, protection and spiritual support since 2014. Here she shares her fostering experience with ACS and talks about how as a couple they created the chance to perform Umrah last Ramadan with her foster children in Mecca.
Ansar and Sumera’s Fostering Story
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Ansar and Sumera share how a chance encounter with a social worker led them to fostering, the joy of supporting children from diverse backgrounds, and how fostering has helped them build a loving, inclusive extended family.
Nasreen Amin
Foster Parent Stories
“My advice to anyone considering fostering is to go for it! It’s a very rewarding journey”
Sabbir Ahmed
Foster Parent Stories
Ildiko and Daniel Meszoly
Foster Parent Stories
Karen Campbell
Foster Parent Stories