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Grandparents Raising their Grandchildren: Implications for the Vulnerable Children of Eswatini
Ncamsile D. Motsa, Pholoho J. Morojele, 19 Sep 2022
… on how these children’s education towards academic success could be enhanced. Setting: Three rural primary schools in … and inclusive education in the schools as one-way teachers could tailor their pedagogical practices to meet individual … on how these children’s education towards academic success could be enhanced. Setting: Three rural primary schools in …
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The role of informal caregivers in the well‐being of orphans in Botswana: a literature review
Tapologo Maundeni & Tumani Malinga‐Musamba - Child & Family Social Work, 05 Apr 2012
… of orphans, the challenges they face, as well as how they could be empowered to be more responsive to children's needs. … of orphans, the challenges they face, as well as how they could be empowered to be more responsive to children's needs. …
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Assessment of Capacity to Manage Alternative Care for Children in Southern Africa
Andrew Dunn & John Parry-Williams, 01 Feb 2008
… Article 20(3) of the CRC provides that alternative care could include, inter alia, foster placement, kafala of … put capacity stresses on ministries of social welfare who could take on the task of delivering cash transfers while at … research indicates that all those over 6 weeks of age could benefit from it.21 Although the figures used below are …
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Negotiating the care of children and support for caregivers
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Tawanda Makusha, Deidre Blackie, Lenore Manderson, Katharine Hall and Mayke Huijbregts - South African Child Gauge 2018, 20 Nov 2018
… these children themselves to perform care work when elders could not. Today, increased access to antiretrovirals allows … often weighed up against employment opportunities which could bring much needed income into the household. This is … the pregnancy was unplanned and they wished that they could delay motherhood, but late discovery of the pregnancy …
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Reflections on Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge of parenting: Indigenous parenting practices of different communities in Africa
Parenting in Africa Network (PAN), 2014
… was kept by the grandmother or father in a hatchery; this could be used to multiply the child’s investments and as the chicken multiply, they could be exchanged for a goat or sheep then later exchanged for a female calf. These could eventually build up a stock of livestock which could be …
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Why family matters to me: Findings from digital storytelling in eight countries
Emily Delap and Payal Saksena – Family for Every Child, 2016
… and formed another family. The house was left empty and I could Findings “At this time I felt like I was no longer part … to care for me in - 16-year-old girl, India happiness he could.” - 16-year-old girl, India Policy implications … and “My dad continued to cane me each time he was drunk. I could not take it any more and days in the house with nothing …
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Grandmothers and Children’s Schooling in 33 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Sandor Schrijner and Jeroen Smits , 01 Nov 2014
… society (the Dogon in Mali) the presence of a grandmother could negatively affect the life chances of their … in poor households the presence of a grandmother could be beneficial to a child’s educational participation … the 10    coresidence of a maternal grandmother could be beneficial to the well-being of her grandchildren. …
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COVID-19 and Alternative Care in South Africa: Children’s Responses to the Pandemic. A Case Study from a Child and Youth Care Centre in Mogale City
Rika Swanzen and Gert Jonker - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond, 15 Dec 2020
… valuable during this time, especially when the CYCC could access online educational services. Primary human … the CYCC staff and other residents. Only under Level 2 could other professional services be activated again. Only … in the behaviour of the children during the lockdown could be detected and typified. ● Initially, nobody clearly …
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Africa Expert Consultation on Violence against Children in All Care Settings
Better Care Network & African Child Policy Forum, with support from CRS, Family for Every Child, Hope and Homes for Children and Save the Children , 21 Jul 2017
… sound in one of them was not conducive and participants could not here it. However, the video is available on the BCN … about and discussing the issues related to VAC and care could have benefitted from more time. Two days was just … light. However, study authors did note that care leavers could have been uncomfortable saying anything negative about …
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Alternative Care for Children in Southern Africa: Progress, Challenges and Future Directions
UNICEF, 09 Jan 2009
… Article 20(3) of the CRC provides that alternative care could include, inter alia, foster placement, kafala of … at greater risk, and from which criteria for supervision could be developed. Research should assess the situation of … Such information would ease identification of those who could be reunified, or where other substitute family …
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