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Social welfare
RSS FeedSudan: Malnutrition's insidious impact on children
2004-08-26, Issue 171
If they can escape slaughter, endure rape and survive outbreaks of infectious diseases, the thousands of young people uprooted by ethnic conflict in Sudan’s Darfur province still face food shortages that threaten to stunt forever the physical and int...
Sierra Leone: aid workers held for child smuggling
2004-08-26, Issue 171
Police in Sierra Leone have arrested the head of a local aid agency suspected of helping to smuggle 29 children out of the country for adoption in the United States, a senior police official said on Monday. Roland Kargbo, director of Help a Needy Ch...
Africa: Billions struggle without clean water and basic sanitation
2004-08-26, Issue 171
More than 2.6 billion people - over 40 per cent of the world's population - do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water, warns a major report released by the World Health Organization and ...
Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa will have 20m orphans by 2010, says Engebak
2004-08-19, Issue 170
UNICEF eastern and southern Africa regional director Per Engebak has said there would be in excess of 20 million HIV/AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa by 2010. Engebak said there would be four countries in Southern Africa where the orphan generation...
Tanzania: Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in children
2004-08-19, Issue 170
This article from Malaria Journal looks at care-seeking for fatal malaria among children under five in southern Tanzania. Findings showed that in the case of 78.7 per cent of malaria deaths, biomedical care had been used in the form of antimalarial d...
Africa/Global: Youth unemployment at all time high
2004-08-19, Issue 170
Youth unemployment has skyrocketed worldwide over the past decade to some 88 million, according to a new study by the International Labour Office (ILO), reaching an all time high with young people aged 15 to 24 now representing nearly half the world'...
Madagascar: Project gives school dropouts income generating skills
2004-08-19, Issue 170
According to UNICEF, chronic poverty is the main reason for an estimated 1 million children not attending school on the giant Indian Ocean Island, but efforts are now underway to equip the youth with income generating skills. Last week, 258 out-of-sc...
South Africa: It has to be BIG
2004-08-19, Issue 170
Whether or not the Basic Income Grant (BIG) could be introduced is not so much an economic question – it is primarily political. Given political will, BIG could be approved tomorrow. Institutional structures for delivery could be in place in 2-3 ye...
Uganda: Insecurity, poverty leaves northern children vulnerable
2004-08-19, Issue 170
Insecurity and widespread poverty caused by the 18-year warfare pitting government forces against insurgents in northern Uganda has made desperate children vulnerable to recruitment as rebel fighters, the United Nations children's Fund (UNICEF) said....
Sudan: Vaccinations go-ahead in Darfur
2004-08-12, Issue 169
Representatives of the rebel movements in Sudan's western Darfur region have agreed to allow some 500,000 children cut off from regular health services to be vaccinated against such potentially killer diseases as measles and polio, the United Nations...
CAR: Thousands of children vaccinated against polio
2004-08-12, Issue 169
A weeklong door-to-door anti-polio drive in the Central African Republic ended on Saturday. The nation-wide campaign follows the outbreak of two cases of a deadly form of "wild polio" in June 2004 in the northern prefecture of Mambere Kadei. Health ...
Swaziland: Neighbours pool resources for orphans and vulnerable children
2004-08-12, Issue 169
Swazi community members and organisations are combining resources to set up a growing network of care centres for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The centres, called Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs), cater to the nutritional, educational and e...
Zimbabwe: Condom use and abstinence among unmarried young people in Zimbabwe: Which strategy, whose agenda?
2004-08-12, Issue 169
This paper compares the views about abstinence and condom use expressed by young people in Zimbabwe in focus-group discussions with the views underlying national policies and religious and traditional beliefs. Young people’s decisions to adopt one or...
Kenya: Fears of population increase
2004-08-12, Issue 169
Kenya's population growth rate is likely to rise substantially because fewer Kenyans are using contraception. Unless the Government provides funds for a campaign to push for greater use of birth control methods, the population - currently growing at ...
Ghana: Child Labour condemned
2004-08-12, Issue 169
The School Management Committee (SMC) of Akuapim basic schools has condemned the increasing rate at which parents allow school children to cart cocoa beans and food crops from one place to the other and tap palm wine instead of encouraging them to st...
Zambia: Finance Minister debates poverty findings
2004-08-12, Issue 169
The launching of the Social Watch report 2004 in Zambia sparked a nation-wide discussion on poverty in the country. Finance Minister Ngandu Magande argued there is now plenty of food in the country and questioned the accuracy of the Social Watch indi...
Zimbabwe: Social collapse
2004-08-12, Issue 169
Zimbabwe’s crisis is not only political and economic; the signs of social disintegration are everywhere, says this article on the site www.sokwanele.com “Nightly, street children as young as five or six seek the “protection” of older children who a...
Zimbabwe: Increase in street children as economy worsens
2004-08-05, Issue 168
Zimbabwe's worsening economic conditions were one of the key reasons for the growing number of children on the streets, according to a recent survey. Results from an assessment of children living and working on the streets in urban areas around the c...
Kenya: Focus on poverty, food insecurity in Coast Province
2004-08-05, Issue 168
Poor, pregnant and malnourished. These are the three adjectives that best describe Kache Nyoka, a mother of five, who is caught up in the drought that has ravaged Kilifi District in Kenya's Coast Province. Sitting next to the ramshackle mud-and-thatc...
Africa/Global: Child farm labour: The wealth paradox
2004-08-05, Issue 168
This paper is motivated by the observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households. The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, pr...
Nigeria: UN hails Nigerian resumption of polio vaccination
2004-08-05, Issue 168
With sub-Saharan Africa on the verge of the largest polio epidemic in recent history, a United Nations-backed campaign to eradicate the virus has hailed resumption of immunization in the Nigerian State of Kano, seen as vital for eliminating the disea...
South Africa: Launch of Research Report on Prepaid Water Meters in Soweto
2004-08-05, Issue 168
More than five hundred Phiri residents were joined in the Phiri Hall in Soweto to support the launch of a research report - The Struggle Against Silent Disconnections - produced by the Coalition Against Water Privatisation. Police kept their weary ey...
Zambia: Despite Surplus, Pockets of Food Insecurity Remain
2004-08-05, Issue 168
The World Food Programme has announced that it fed almost 830,000 Zambians last month. This comes despite the fact that Zambia had a successful harvest and is expected to export an estimated 120,000mt of maize. The western region of the country is at...
Ethiopia: Potential Humanitarian Crisis in Somali Region
2004-08-05, Issue 168
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has reported that a potential humanitarian crisis is looming in the Somali region of Ethiopia where the long rains have failed and up to 1.3 million people are likely to need emergenc...
Mali/Senegal: Mali Signs Agreement With Senegal To Curb Child Trafficking
2004-07-29, Issue 167
Mali has signed its third agreement with a neighboring country to fight child trafficking, which UNICEF says occurs in 89 percent of African countries. Senegal joined Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso as signatories to the agreement, which mandates an ann...
Swaziland: Children tell their stories at a unique conference
2004-07-29, Issue 167
Faced with a growing population of orphaned and vulnerable children, Swaziland's policymakers have turned to the children themselves to assess their needs at a conference outside the central commercial town of Manzini. "I am happy they are asking me ...
Zimbabwe: Reform of birth registration law urged
2004-07-29, Issue 167
Child rights campaigners are looking to amend current Zimbabwean legislation to make birth registration easier, as nearly a third of all children do not possess a birth certificate, restricting their access to public services. Zimbabwe has ratified t...
Namibia: Fighting child abuse through drama
2004-07-29, Issue 167
Despite the increase in awareness of women and children's rights, many cases of abuse remain unreported to the authorities. And concerned with the situation, Lifeline/Childline, which implements other programmes, such as counselling and hotline servi...
Malawi: Child labour in the tea sector - a pilot study
2004-07-29, Issue 167
This report sets out to gain an overview of existing knowledge of child labour practices in the Malawi tea sector and to explore the needs and priorities for further research. The findings of the paper include:...
Africa: Responses by faith-based organizations to orphans and vulnerable children: preliminary study of six countries in Africa
2004-07-29, Issue 167
This study, published by UNICEF and the World Conference of Religions for Peace, draws attention to the roles of faith-based responses to HIV/AIDS in the six African countries it surveyed (Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Uganda). Th...
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