Uganda

This is a webinar that occurred on August 19 through the RISE Learning Network. 

This article from the Telegraph discusses potential problems that can occur with student volunteers.

Maria David Zaya discusses the search to find her daughter who was kidnapped by Boko Haram close to two years ago.

This article from Haaretz discusses the increasing problem of child labor in Israel.  According to the article, children are taken from their homes through an agreement with their parents and forced to beg at highway intersections for up to 12 hours a day.  

The Child Abuse Prevention Center is seeking a new Director of Advancement to manage all aspects of fund development. 

This story from the UK discusses how gangs recruit children as young as 8 years old to serve as weapons support for older gang members.  These children are recruited to hold knives for gang members, and they are often asked to attack others on members’ behalf. 

Next Generation Nepal is hiring for the position of in-country Country Director in Nepal. This is NGN’s most senior representative and administrator in Nepal. The post of Country Director is a diverse, exciting and challenging role for a highly skilled and dedicated candidate who can lead NGN in its current phase, as well as into a new phase of its development.

This chapter of the Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research discusses the dangers of using categories in child welfare.

The aim of this study is to evaluate a training in non-violent resistance (NVR) for foster parents who take care of a foster child (ages 6-18) with externalizing problem behavior.

This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years.