Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Eric Hartman, Richard Kiely, Christopher Boettcher, and Jessica Friedrichs - Stylus Publishing, LLC,

This book gathers and develops theoretical insights and practical tools to support ethical global learning through community-campus partnerships like those described in its pages. The book outlines some of the risks of global service learning, including the harmful impacts of orphanage volunteering.

Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI),

CCAI’s Foster Youth Internship Program® is a highly esteemed congressional internship for young adults who spent their formative years in the U.S. foster care system. In this annual policy report, the interns focus on subjects they are personally passionate about due to their experiences and understanding after living in foster care and make personal recommendations for improving the U.S. foster care system.

Family for Every Child,

Family for Every Child examined the critical issue of sexual violence affecting boys through this global scoping study, Caring for Boys Affected by Sexual Violence.

UNICEF and partners,

The INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework is designed to help governments and non-governmental organizations monitor progress and track change over time as they implement INSPIRE strategies to prevent and respond to violence against children.

Child Welfare Information Gateway,

This bulletin for professionals addresses the scope of the problem of child neglect, its consequences, and the importance of prevention.

James Rice and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir - Human Organization,

The goal of this contribution is to bring to light some systemic applications of organizational power that occur within the child protection system in Iceland.

Kathryn Joyce - The Intercept,

This article from the Intercept offers a brief history of intercountry adoption in the US as a response to crises, such as the earthquake in Haiti, and connects that to the fear of a new "adoption rush" in response to the current family separation crisis at the US border with Mexico.

Abiud Ochieng - Daily Nation,

"Weak adoption laws could have also exposed hundreds of Kenyan children to abuse and exploitation both locally and internationally," says this article from Daily Nation.

Ingrid Höjer, Helena Lindberg, Bo Nielsen, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Helena Johansson - Children and Youth Services Review,

The aim of the article is to describe and discuss how issues related to schooling and educational achievement are recognized and addressed in social services case files for children and young people placed in out-of-home care (OHC) in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Renée Spencer, Alison L. Drew, Grace Gowdy, John Paul Horn - Children and Youth Services Review,

This qualitative interview study examined experiences of youth-initiated mentoring relationships (YIM) among youth transitioning out of the foster care system.