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Introduction
This resource – a companion to Children, Orphanages, and Families: a Summary of Research to Help Guide Faith-based Action – is provided as a working bibliography of key research and evidence-based policy papers on the care of orphans and other vulnerable children separated from parental care.
Most of the documents in this bibliography are recent research studies,…
Abstract: India has around 20 million children living without families who need to be cared for through alternative forms of care. Udayan Care has an innovative group care model for children in need of care, utilising the indigenously developed LIFE (Living In Family Environment) strategy in its 13 UdayanGhars (Sunshine care homes). The model offers long-term permanent mentor parents to all children through the Carer team at its homes. Most often, children's direct input is not available to the management of care homes. To address this Udayan Care has developed the…
In 2007 the Government of Moldova approved the National Strategy and Action Plan for the Reform of the Residential Childcare System 2007-2012. The overall objectives of the Action Plan were to reduce the number of children living outside a family by 50% and to reorganise residential institutions to support children in families. This informative evaluation commissioned by UNICEF, the Government of the Republic of Moldova and NGO partners is built around 6 critical questions:
- Assessing…
Many developing countries are hard hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, particularly in Africa. India and other Asian countries are also being affected. In some areas, as many as one in every 3 women of childbearing age are infected with HIV and will succumb to AIDS, probably before their children reach adulthood. The US Census Bureau has estimated that 15.6 million children had lost their mother or both parents to AIDS by the end of 2000. More than 90% of these children are from sub-Saharan Africa.
Because so many young people are dying, the social framework that has been used for…