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Developed while researching child-headed households in five Ethiopian towns and their rural surroundings, this book presents the experiences and stories of individual child household heads. The stories are a sample of experiences of millions of children living in child-headed households across Africa, revealing both the gravity of their situations as well as the urgent need for action in terms of advocacy, policy and legislative development, social mobilization and program design.
The Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program is a five-year (2004-2009) integrated and comprehensive program designed to provide care and support to more than half a million orphaned and vulnerable children and their families throughout the country of Ethiopia. The Program emphasizes community-based, results-oriented, and family-focused efforts which reduce the negative impact of HIV and AIDS on children, families and communities and increases capacity of local organizations and communities to positively respond to the needs of OVC. The PC3 Program is a consortium of…
Faces of Positive Change, which documents programme successes and lessons learned is the companion book to Toolkit for Positive Change: Providing Family-Focused, Results-Driven and Cost-Effective Programming for Orphans and Vulnerable Children. One of the pillars of the Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program has been the creation of partnerships and fostering a sense of unity within communities to address the needs of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopian communities. Bringing about positive change, in creative and sustainable ways, has been a cornerstone…
The multi-faceted nature of child vulnerability–whether due to such epidemics as HIV/AIDS, conflict, natural disasters, extreme poverty, or a host of other contextual factors–is reflected in the wide spectrum of professional disciplines that have mobilized to address it. Among these, economic strengthening is gaining in importance and prominence, with few experts working to reduce child vulnerability in doubt that poverty is a major contributor to the challenges they face. Unfortunately, very few specialists feel comfortable working at the intersection of these disciplines, which have…
This report focuses on the social protection aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights in southern and eastern Africa. The introduction summarizes the findings of the author’s previous report for FAO on the legal aspects of children’s property and inheritance rights, and it discusses the findings of the current report.
The second section discusses the bi-directional relationship between HIV/AIDS and agriculture, food security, and rural livelihoods (including the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children’s property and inheritance rights). The report also considers the factors…
In the context of globalization and of wide reaching phenomena, and also of its E.U. membership, Romania has experienced a number of changes both at economic and social levels. One of the phenomena with a strong impact on the country’s society and economy is that of migration for work abroad. Concretely, in recent years, more and more people, especially from modest_ but also from poor strata of the population, choose to emigrate due to a lack of employment opportunities.
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The vulnerability of children varies as a result of many, interrelated factors, including age, gender, family care, poverty, disability, violence and food security among others. The AIDS epidemic increases children’s vulnerability in many tragic ways. A child’s vulnerability increases as a direct result of his or her own positive HIV status or because of the HIV infection, illness and death of a parent that results in loss of care, nurturing, income and other basic needs. Most often, the direct affects of AIDS create vulnerability both for the child and for the household. In high…
This paper, which reviews a program in World Vision Rwanda to provide psychosocial mentoring to OVC, shows that the lack of parental care and guidance caused multiple emotional problems in the lives of orphans. Several mentors reported that while youth were initially apprehensive and distant, after only a few visits, most youth became very excited about the mentor’s arrival. Overall, volunteers have indicated that the youth have been very responsive and welcoming of the mentor.
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This document contains an updated list of literature and bibliographies concerning children and families affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. Resource topics include education, child headed households, care for children and families, community mobilization and capacity building, socio-economic impact and microeconomic response, evaluation and assessment, costing interventions and national response, situational analysis, law and policy, psychosocial issues, scaling-up and older care providers. Most of the resources are focused on sub-Saharan Africa.
CARE Rwanda’s Nkundabana (Kinyarwanda for “I love children,”) approach provides a community-based solution to the overwhelming problem of child-headed households (CHHs) and households in which adults are unable to provide adequate care for children. Challenged by the impact of civil war, genocide and HIV/AIDS, Rwanda is confronted with one of the highest percentages of orphans in the world. Communities already overburdened by social fragmentation, loss of labor from the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and crippling poverty are unprepared to care for the children left behind. Even the capacity of extended…