This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in Africa. Browse resources by region, country, or category. Resources related particularly to North Africa can also be found on the Middle East and North Africa page.
This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in Africa. Browse resources by region, country, or category. Resources related particularly to North Africa can also be found on the Middle East and North Africa page.
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This article from GroundUp describes the high prevalance of delays experienced by those seeking foster care grants in South Africa.
RIATT-ESA seeks to carry out a review of partners’ programmes and develop a booklet of partners’ promising practices in providing comprehensive care and support for children and youth affected by HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa.
This article from The Citizen discusses the situation of "unsafe abandonments" of infants in South Africa.
This podcast episode from the Faith to Action Initiative features an interview with Peter Kamau, Founding Partner of Child in Family Focus – Kenya, about his experience growing up in an orphanage.
This video from Focus in Africa, BBC World News highlights findings from a recent Disability Rights International (DRI) report which explores the practice of infanticide of children born with disabilities in Kenya.
New research has revealed that nearly half of Kenyan mothers with disabled babies are pressured to kill them.
This article from Thomas Reuters Foundation News highlights findings from a recent study by Disability Rights International which explored the stigma around children with disabilities in Kenya, and the ways in which that stigma leads to child abandonment, institutionalization, and even infanticide.
This article from the Epoch Times tells the story of Aisha Usman, adoptive mother of three and advocate for ending the institutionalization of children in Nigeria. The article also describes the global movement to move away from institutional care of children.
This Op-Ed from Kenya's Daily Nation by Simon Njoroge paints a staggering picture of violations of human rights by child institutions.
African Impact, a volunteer company, has issued a statement against the institutionalization of children in orphanages.