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All over the world, the pandemic has turned children's lives upside down. In this episode of Save the Children Documentary, they share their stories. Follow along to northern Colombia where nothing is the same in 15-year-old Mary's life, and on to the war in Afghanistan where vaccinations stopped and food shortages threaten. Hear 16-year-old Vusi in South Africa talk about how the strict lockdown made an already tough situation impossible, and how a young rapper in Delhi's slum raises hope with his songs.
Governments shut borders quickly in eastern Africa as the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 loomed. That left child protection actors with reduced access to the refugee children they support and the children themselves are facing more risks. In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Elsa Laurin, the Senior Child Protection Officer for the East and Horn of Africa from UNHCR, tells Hani Mansourian how they and…
This episode of the podcast Up/Root features interviews with Stephen Ucembe and Ruth Wacuka who both grew up in "orphanages," despite having parents. "Well-meaning and good-intentioned people like you and I keep children's homes and orphanages in business by volunteering there, patronizing them and contributing money and resources to their work, often rather than supporting vulnerable families," says the podcast host. In this episode, Stephen and Ruth share what it was like to grow up in an institution and what they are doing to help end orphanage tourism - and how listeners can join…
This podcast episode from the Faith to Action Initiative features an interview with Peter Kamau, Founding Partner of Child in Family Focus – Kenya, about his experience growing up in an orphanage. Peter provides insight about why many careleavers struggle after leaving care; the best services to offer careleavers; and resources to help those supporting careleavers.
In this Innocenti Podcast, Tia Palermo discusses The Transfer Project, a government run large-scale social cash transfer program in Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this program is to improve the condition of children and adolescents in the region. The beneficiaries of these cash transfers are non-conditional. These transfers have had a positive effect on children and adolescents. Impact evaluations demonstrate a direct positive causal impacts on households and children’s well-being. Using rigorous data, The Transfer Project found that cash transfers do not increase…
In this radio segment from Newsday, Aselefech Evans, an Ethiopian adoptee who was adopted to the US at the age of six, speaks about her support of the Ethiopian Prime Minister's decision to adopt a child. In 2018, the Ethiopian government banned the adoption of Ethiopian children by foreigners. Now, Evans believes, the decision by the Prime Minister and his wife to adopt a child could be a model to promote more domestic adoption in the country. "I think it's so important," says Evans, "to keep the children in their country of origin so that they are able to be immersed in their…
This episode of the Conversation podcast from the BBC features interviews and discussion with two women who grew up in institutions as young children, one in the UK and the other in Kenya.
"What’s it like to grow up away from your family?" asks the episode. "Two women who spent part of their childhoods in care tell Kim Chakanetsa how they look back on that time, and how the experience has shaped them as adults. As a child, Rukhiya Budden experienced terrible neglect and abuse growing up in an orphanage in Kenya. Today she works with Hope and Homes for Children and campaigns for…
In this segment from BBC Radio 4, File on 4 reports from Uganda on conditions in UK-funded orphanages where, in the worst cases, children are neglected, exploited and abused by orphanage staff, tourists, volunteers, and donors. In the segment, the reporter accompanies a local government official, a translator, and police officers on a "raid" of one of these orphanages in Uganda, funded by donors from the UK, that are unlicensed and identified to be closed down by the Ugandan government. The orphanage they visit, she notes, has been misrepresented to donors - the…
Kenya: Handicapped children seen as a 'curse' & misfortune that certain mothers deserve, says report
New research has revealed that nearly half of Kenyan mothers with disabled babies are pressured to kill them. The report by Disability Rights International carried out over two years also found that mothers themselves are often blamed for having disabled children. The majority of the women interviewed said disabled children were considered a curse. Infanticide under Kenyan law is defined as the systematic and deliberate killing of children below one year old either at birth or afterwards. According to the Kenyan police service, there were 42 cases of infanticide in 2016. In this segment,…