Portugal

This report includes a literature, evidentiary, and policy review of social protection in the Eastern and Southern African Region.

This document is an article focusing on the experiences of forced migrant youth aged 12 to 17 from Myanmar who have grown up as temporary residents along the northwest border of Thailand.  

This paper examines existing knowledge on raising adolescents in east and southern African countries, including Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.  According to the report, and within the context of these regions, parenting is understood to be handled through extended community and family networks.  

This guide by the UK's regulatory body, Ofsted, explains in detail what one must do in order to open a residential family centre. 

This study investigates the effects of Community Care Coalitions on child protection in Assosa City, Ethiopia. It explores services and strategies employed by Community Care Coalitions to address child protection, as well as challenges faced by Community Care Coalitions while attempting to provide these services.

In this research paper Asnakech Tesfaye explores the expectations of Ethiopian children applying for an Australian Orphan Visa.  Tesfaye’s research found children applying for visas expected to get better education, employment, material benefits and living conditions. 

The filmmaker Daniel Mulloy has directed a new 20-minute film, entitled ‘Home,’ which is inspired by the current refugee crisis. 

This practice paper from the Australian Institute of Family Studies presents an overview of the research on the impacts of trauma on children’s brain development for children placed in out-of-home care and offers basic principles for responding to children’s trauma. 

This article from iNews 880 in Canada highlights a recent report from the Ministry of Children and Family Development in British Columbia which found that 36 children in care in the province were housed in hotel rooms between November 2015 and May 2016. 

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. This post, from Travindy, highlights statements made by travel companies and others in the tourism industry on the subject of orphanage tourism during the BVBC blogging blitz.