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 describes his experiences with international volunteers in the orphanage where he lived and the larger problem of orphanage volunteering.

Gerald Campbell, a man from the state of Texas in the US who managed an orphanage in Malawi, has just pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the children in his care at the institution. 

The purpose of this consultancy shall be to conduct an assessment of the design of ECD integrated model and the extent to which the project achieved its intended outcomes. 

Save the Children is recruiting a Senior Technical Advisor in Alternative Care (STA) to provide oversight of and ensure implementation of the Alternative Care Component of the Zambia Rising project. 

Family for Every Child is looking for a short term consultant to produce a desk based research report on the context for children in Liberia and recommend CSOs working in this area. 

Over 200 people were killed, and over 100 women and children abducted, in a cross-border attack in the southern Gambella region of Ethiopia on Friday, according to the BBC article. 

This article describes how Rwanda successfully reintegrated the children living in orphanages into family care.

Parenting in Africa Network (PAN) is seeking the services of a documentarist. 

In this piece for the South African Sunday Times, Deborah Minors writes about her father’s experience of discovering he was adopted and her research on men’s feelings regarding adoption. The article also features stories of other male adoptees and adoptive parents in South Africa, focusing on their attitudes and reactions towards adoption.

This special documentary episode of PBS’s “To the Contrary” explores the trend away from orphanages and towards family reunification.