Better Care Network highlights recent news pieces related to the issue of children's care around the world. These pieces include newspaper articles, interviews, audio or video clips, campaign launches, and more.
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 Intrepid Travel, lists six reasons not to visit or volunteer in orphanages.
GHR Foundation has developed an initiative called the Sister Support initiative which engages and help build capacity of Catholic sisters in Uganda in providing care for vulnerable children and children living outside of family care.
This article and corresponding video shine light on the current status of residential institutions for children with disabilities in Mexico, who promised to make changes following Disability Rights International’s report, and the little progress made to right the abuses these children have been subjected to.
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 focuses on the commodification of children as part of the volunteering experience.
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 offers a brief profile of the response the author received to her documentary film on orphanage volunteering and her thoughts on how to promote positive change.
This article from the Pew Research Center presents statistics on the number of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Europe, and the growth in child migration in the past few years.
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 explains why backpackers and young people on their “gap year” should avoid volunteering in institutions and offers alternatives for those looking to volunteer.
This post is part of Better Volunteering Better Care’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post describes the ethical dilemmas involved with short-term volunteering, particularly volunteering with children, and how to apply child-centered ethics to short-term volunteer projects.
This post is part of Better Volunteering Better Care’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post offers a brief explanation as to why most children in “orphanages” are not orphans, what happens to those children, and a list of ways in which people can help address the situations.
In this video, a boy in a shelter in Athens, Greece shares his story of migration to Europe and the trials and challenges he has endured.