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.
The first week of June 2017 marked the conclusion of the three month 'Tubarerere Mu Muryango' (Let’s raise children in families) campaign in Rwanda. A joint effort led by Mashirika Performing Arts and Media Company, the campaign used theater, artwork and poetry to reach out to parents, caregivers and local authorities to promote support for Rwanda's recent efforts toward safe reintegration of children in orphanages/institutions into family based care in the country.
Romania's Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes has demanded an official investigation into 771 deaths in the dismal Communist-era orphanages for disabled children.
UNICEF press release states that a recently published UNICEF article suggesting 2.7 million children live in institutions worldwide is "likely to be just the tip of the iceberg."
Armenpress News reports 633 children registered as living in orphanages in Armenia, with 450 of those children being children with disabilities.
Officials from the Kancheepuram Child Welfare Committee (CWC), who had gone to rescue five orphan children from an unregistered home in St. Thomas Mount (Chennai, India) on Wednesday, found that they had gone missing.
As the number of children fleeing gang violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras soars, UNHCR is launching a campaign for US$18 million in vital aid.
Al Monitor investigates and reports on the experience of street children in Egypt. Despite their large numbers, street children without birth certificates are denied access to Egypt's shelters.
A two month long inititative to evaluate the functions of children's homes in Haiti is underway; data will be used to identify which centres should be closed or refurbished as well as those that are compliant and licensed.
Despite recent reports from the National Adoption Coalition of South Africa (Nacsa) stating the number of abandoned babies have declined in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, anonymous abandonments are on the rise.
A former orphanage for young Chinese girls escapting prostitution and sex slavery now serves as a community-based service provider for children and families.