Kenya

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 44.86 million
  • Population under 15: 42%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 62 years
  • Human Development Index: 145 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 5.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 3.9 members
  • Female-Headed Households: 32%
  • Early Marriage (% of girls married by 15 years): 29%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2014

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Kathryn Joyce - Medium,

Kathryn Joyce discusses the issues that one mother in Uganda faced when she put her child up for international adoption. 

Bamas Victoria,

The Bold Heart Campaign project of Weinspires Global Foundation held an awareness campaign at the Bwari central market in Nigeria.

Orrin G. Hatch, Ron Wyden, Kevin Brady and Sander M. Levin - The Washington Post,

This opinion piece from the Washington Post discusses how working to keep children with their families is a better option 

Next Generation Nepal,

In this talk, Emily Delap from Family for Every Child puts the use of orphanages in Nepal into a global context and explores the international evidence on the harm caused by allowing children to grow up away from families, and on the problems of orphanage voluntourism.

Next Generation Nepal Country Director Martin Punaks talks about orphanage trafficking in Nepal, why orphanage volunteers may inadvertently be part of the problem and how you can be part of the solution through ethical volunteering and other ways of "giving back."

Nicola Skinner - The Guardian,

This article discusses how children's immersion in social media and video games causes them to be bored with reality.  This leads them to be less cooperative, which leads to parents becoming more angry.

Leigh Adams Tucker, Kaymarlin Govender, Caroline Kuo, Marisa Casale, and Lucie Cluver - Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, online version:,

This study focuses on the psychosocial well-being of youth affected by HIV and AIDS.  

Patience A. Afulani, Jacqueline M. Torres, May Sudhinaraset, Joseph Asunka,

This paper examines the association between cross-border ties and cross-border separation with the health of sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrant adults living in metropolitan France using data from the nationally representative “Trajectoire et Origines” survey.

Tara Bahrampour - Washington Post,

In this article from the Washington Post, people share stories of how they found out they were not U.S. citizens after being adopted by American parents.

UNICEF Canada - KSLA News,

This news report states that nearly half a million refugee and migrant children are in the hands of smugglers.