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. 

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 shares her personal experience as an orphanage volunteer draws attention to the “well-disguised human-trafficking” of orphanages.

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. The post highlights what needs to change in international volunteering, global social service learning, and the ways we teach global citizenship.

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. The post asks readers to support organizations that help families stay together and are helping to put an end to trafficking.

Family for Every Child is seeking a Senior Programme Officer to support the effective delivery of their projects. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Using the DFID sustainable livelihood approach, this qualitative study evaluated the social capital being accessed by adolescent girls transitioning from two institutions in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The results of this study suggest that the removal of a child from an institution and its transfer to an improved care environment can lead to a reduced risk of psychopathology, as well as promoting a better social, emotional and cognitive development.

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. The post describes research on on mission trips to Uganda and the money spent on these missions, “ money that could have been put towards much needed welfare reforms and social services.”

This article from the BBC features a series of photos of girls around the world aged 15 and younger who are mothers, and their stories.