Nigeria

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 173,620,000
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 152 out of 187
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 3.2%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.6 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 19%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 49%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, DHS 2013

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Claire Cameron, Daniela Reimer & Mark Smith - European Journal of Social Work,

This article reports on a preliminary exploration of fostering across 11 European countries, reflecting different care and education traditions.

Save the Children,

This album is a compilation of information collected from children and young people during the Kinship Care research in Zanzibar by Save the Children.

The Australian Women’s Weekly,

This article, from the Australian Women’s Weekly, sheds light on the abuses of international surrogacy.

ICSWESD,

This conference - held October 11-12, 2015 in Osaka, Japan - aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Social Work, Education and Social Development.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas - ZAM ,

In this article, Anas Aremeyaw Anas continues his work of exposing abuses at the Bawjiase Countryside Orphanage in Ghana.

Simone Galimberti - Sharing 4 Good,

Better Volunteering, Better Care consultant, Anna McKeon,gave an interview for Sharing4Good about orphanage volunteering.

CTV News ,

According to the article, the Child and Family Services unit of the Manitoba government in Canada has been using hotels to house foster children, despite the province’s promises to end this practice over the last decade.

Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen and Jouko Nikula - XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development,

This paper, presented at the XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development in Moscow on 8 April 2015, outlines a research project analyzing ongoing foster care reform in Russia in the context of the country’s new family policies.

Stephen Ucembe - International Institute of Social Studies,

This paper examines alternative care in Kenya. The focus will be on the genesis of alternative care; the non- prosaic multiple factors contributing to the situation, situational analysis on data, and child protection frameworks.

Vijay Chavan, Pune Mirror,

The Cabinet minister of women and child development (WCD) is dissatisfied with the progress made on the inquiry into the alleged child marriage racket being run at the Mahila Swikar Kendra orphanage in Baramati, India and has therefore ordered a high-level inquiry into these offenses, says the article.