News

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.

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David Coles - London School of Economics Volunteer Centre Blog

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 calls on universities around the world to stop promoting orphanage volunteering and offers some steps that universities can take to help put an end to orphanage volunteering.

Pippa Biddle - Huff Post Impact

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 shares her personal experience as an orphanage volunteer draws attention to the “well-disguised human-trafficking” of orphanages.

Rachel Musson - Globalsl.org

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 highlights what needs to change in international volunteering, global social service learning, and the ways we teach global citizenship.

Juno Kim - AWE Comment

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 asks readers to support organizations that help families stay together and are helping to put an end to trafficking.

Mark Riley - The Guardian Development Professionals Network

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 describes research on on mission trips to Uganda and the money spent on these missions, “ money that could have been put towards much needed welfare reforms and social services.”

BBC News

This article from the BBC features a series of photos of girls around the world aged 15 and younger who are mothers, and their stories.

BBC News

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the government’s plans to pass new laws to encourage adoption of children in care, among other things, “even when that means overriding family ties", he wrote.

Lola Akinmade Åkerström - Geotraveler's Niche

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 outlines the reasons orphanage volunteering can be disastrous and how people can help orphaned and vulnerable children in a meaningful way.

Dur Montoya - Viajando con pasaporte Colombiano

Esta entrada de blog es una parte de la serie de artículos de la Iniciativa de Better Volunteering Better Care que están dirigidos a la sensibilización sobre las cuestiones de voluntario en orfanatos. En la entrada, Dur Montoya describe su experiencia de ser voluntaria en un orfanato falso, “el peor error de mi vida.”

Nikki Vargas - Pin the Map Project

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 how so-called “orphanages” are used as money-making operations and how children who are separated from their families to live in these institutions suffer.