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The 4Children Initiative (4C) of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is recruiting a ‘Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families’ (KCHPF) Uganda Project Director who will be a member of the CRS Uganda team in Kampala.
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In this report from Human Rights Watch, authorities are making strides in protecting street children from the harsh punishment many of them face in Quranic schools in Senegal.
Rwanda’s "Tubarere Mu Muryango (TMM)," program, which translates to "Let's raise children in families" has placed over 2000 children in foster families.
Ghana’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has sent a formal request to the Hague to become a signatory of the Convention, according to this article from Graphic Online. Ghana has begun the process of formalizing its child welfare procedures, including foster care and adoption, in an effort to comply with international standards.
The 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, issued by the U.S. State Department to grade countries on their anti-slavery efforts, has identified the forced begging of children by their teachers as Senegal’s primary trafficking problem, according to the article.
Ghana is working toward reforming and strengthening the foster care and adoption procedures and, to that end, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) convened a group of stakeholders at a meeting in Accra to gather their input.
The Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening project (ASPIRES) is a USAID- and PEPFAR-funded cooperative agreement implemented by FHI 360 that supports evidence-based, gender-sensitive programming to
Uganda’s President Museveni has assented to the Children's (Amendment) Bill 2015, a bill that “seeks to strengthen the protection of children's rights and restrict legal guardianship of children to Ugandan citizens,” according to this article from All Africa.
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 explains that, around the world, many orphanages are being run, not by government, but by church groups and individuals who start as volunteers. “The institutions are poorly regulated and they’re doing a job that could be done by the children’s families, with the right support,” says Smith.
