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On estime que 32 000 enfants vivent dans des orphelinats en Haïti. Plus de 80 % ne sont pas orphelins. 80 années de recherches démontrent le préjudice causé lorsqu’on élève les enfants dans des institutions. Par conséquent, la plupart des pays du monde en développement ont abandonné ce type de prise en charge depuis plusieurs années.
Le gouvernement haïtien a donné la priorité à la réduction de la dépendance envers la prise en charge en orphelinat pour s’assurer que les enfants peuvent être élevés dans des familles. Par ailleurs, il a mis en priorité la lutte contre la traite des…
According to this report from Lumos, of the estimated 32,000 children who live in orphanages in Haiti, only 20 are percent orphans. Eighty years of research demonstrates the harm caused by raising children in institutions. As a result, most countries in the developed world moved away from this form of care decades ago.
The Haitian government has prioritised reducing reliance on orphanage care, to ensure children can be raised in families. They have also prioritised addressing trafficking in children, another significant concern in Haiti.
However, well-intended donors and volunteers from…
Abstract
For at least eight decades, researchers have analyzed the association between childhood poverty and cognitive development in different societies worldwide, but few of such studies have been carried out in Latin America. The aim of the present paper is to systematically review the empirical studies that have analyzed the associations between poverty and cognitive development in children under 18 years of age from Latin American and Caribbean countries between 2000 and 2015. This analysis takes into consideration the country where the work was conducted, the experimental and…
This study by UNICEF sought to identify key determinants of vulnerability among children –including those affected by HIV and AIDS – that can contribute to developing an improved global measure of vulnerable children in the context of HIV and AIDS. Data from the most recent available household surveys at the time of analysis was used from 11 countries – Cambodia, Central African Republic, Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe – were pooled.
Based on the results of the pooled analysis, the key indicators of vulnerability for…
This document, published by Catholic Relief Services, urges members of the Catholic faith community to consider the best interests of the child when partnering, or “twinning” with parishes in Haiti and undertaking charitable activities. “Twinning,” says the report is the practice of Catholic congregations, or parishes, in the United States partnering with parishes in Haiti and providing support, money, resources, and volunteers to those parishes. These activities often include directing resources toward children in orphanages in Haiti. The problem with this support, says Catholic Relief…
Children and adolescents who live without or are at risk of losing parental care for different reasons are more at risk of being exposed to poverty, discrimination and exclusion, which in turn make them more vulnerable to abuse, exploitation and abandonment.
This paper aims to show different organisations, institutions, governments and civil society the reality facing thousands of children in Latin America. This information can be used as a tool for debating and prioritising the issue as well as promoting constructing good practices and public policies that will improve the wellbeing…
This paper is based on "The Latin American Report. The situation of children in Latin America without parental care or at risk of losing it. Contexts, causes and responses," which was prepared using reports from 13 countries in the region. These reports were compiled by SOS Children's Villages, in the countries where the organisation has offices, in order to establish the circumstances of children without parental care or in vulnerable situations. It should be noted that there was limited…
Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital, such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers. Evaluation results for programs launched in Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Turkey reveal successes in addressing many of the failures in delivering social assistance, such as weak poverty targeting, disincentive effects, and limited welfare impacts. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including the…
The Child Vulnerability Study was conducted during 2005 by the Governments of Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines with technical and financial assistance from UNICEF. Its aim was to enable the three countries to fulfill their obligations to children in terms of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other international and regional instruments. The Governments agreed that the study should be carried out concurrently in the three countries to allow valid comparisons.
The study aimed at defining what…
No one wants children to suffer the harshness of life in poverty. This can drive some parents to entrust their children to an orphanage or to work in domestic service. It can lead some social workers to remove children from a home because their family is poor. There are times when these are the best options available: the children will be better fed and the parents may have the time to overcome a crisis and build a more stable home. Outcomes are far worse when children leave of their own accord and end up on their own in the streets. But even in the best of…