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.
For this article from the Guardian, photographer Maroussia Mbaye spoke to women in Senegal who said "crushing social stigma, poverty and lack of traditional support systems had left them with no choice but to commit infanticide."
In May this year in Goma, a city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a volcano erupted. "In the chaos that followed, families fleeing the eruption became separated," says this article and accompanying video from BBC News.
In this opinion piece, Anne Smith, Global Director of Changing the Way We Care, calls for an increase in funding for international humanitarian and development assistance in order to support children who have lost a parent to COVID-19 to stay with their families.
This article from the Guardian highlights findings from the recent Lancet study on minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers.
In this segment from All Things Considered, Ailsa Chang speaks with journalist Deepa Fernandes about her two-part investigation for Latino USA into domestic violence survivors who lose their children to the foster care system.
"California lawmakers have approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the US, which will see $35m used for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care, in a move that could spur other states to follow its lead," says this article from the Guardian.
This article from NPR describes some of the ways in which international volunteering has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and calls attention to the criticisms the industry has received, including in regards to orphanage volunteering.
"A two-day old baby born to daily wage workers in India's western state of Gujarat was kidnapped not once but twice," says this article from BBC News which investigates how and why.
In this episode of Full Story, a podcast from the Guardian, Rachel Humphreys speaks to Barry Kennedy, a survivor of the Marieval residential school where 751 bodies were found.
"The revelations that there are hundreds of indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools have shaken Canadians," says this article from BBC News. "They have also increased calls for changes to the country's foster care system, where indigenous children are vastly overrepresented"