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The primary objective of this study was to provide an overview of institutional and alternative care for Children in Need of Special Protection. In line with the United Nations guidelines to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the study was designed to assist and encourage the government of Viet Nam to develop policies and programs and to channel more resources to support family and community-based care.
As the HIV/AIDS epidemic strikes at the heart of family and community support structures, large numbers of older people are assuming responsibility for bringing up orphans and vulnerable children. Family structures are changing. Often the middle generation – both men and women – is completely absent, leaving the old and young to support each other.
This means that families of older carers and orphans and vulnerable children are compelled to take on new roles. Older people make up a significant proportion of the poorest, and HIV/AIDS exacerbates the extreme poverty faced by older-…