Uganda

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.

The state of Kentucky in the US has implemented a new program for youth aging out of foster care called 'Fostering Success.' The program “places young adults aged 18 to 23 in a 10-week office job at a local branch of the Kentucky Department for Community Based Service,” according to the article. 

This article from Voice of America presents findings from a recent report based on the experiences of police and charities in Bengaluru city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The report sheds light on the multi million rupee industry of child trafficking on India’s streets. 

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. The post from Travel + Social Good describes some of the voluntourism industry’s “initiatives that are based on good intentions, but can be more detrimental than helpful for local communities.”

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. In this post, the author questions whether unqualified gap year and other volunteers are causing more harm than good.

This paper presents selectively on the findings of two separate but related qualitative Irish studies exploring relationship-based approaches in residential child care practice, from the perspectives of both residential child care workers and young care leavers.