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Orphans living on their own in child-headed households are a new, but growing phenomenon, which has resulted from the overwhelming number of orphans caused by the HIV/AIDS scourge. With the traditional extended family and community support networks disintegrating, orphans in CHHs have had to depend on their own resilience by developing a continuum of coping and survival strategies. Any support to orphans in CHH especially by NGOs must be conscious of these dynamics, if coping capacities in CHH are to be enhanced in a way that creates sustainability in CHHs. The failure to appropriately…
During 2002, the conflict in Liberia escalated which has resulted in the arrival of more than 50,000 (UNHCR December 2002) Liberian Refugees fleeing to Sierra Leone for safety. While families are fleeing the conflict in Liberia many children have become separated. Currently 502 Liberian children have been identified as separated and are being provided with family tracing and reunification and alternative care services.
This document provides detailed definitions, guidelines, and criteria for the monitoring of three forms of alternative care -- emergency transit booth care,…
About 2,770 children in eastern Congo lost one or both parents to the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, the United Nations estimates, and have ended up living with relatives, in orphanages, or even on the streets.
Traumatised and shunned due to discrimination around the disease, many children must work in order to eat, according to local advocates, who said efforts to care for and educate Ebola orphans were falling short due to a lack of funds and interest.