Better Care Network highlights recent news pieces related to the issue of children's care around the world. These pieces include newspaper articles, interviews, audio or video clips, campaign launches, and more.
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 explains how so-called “orphanages” are used as money-making operations and how children who are separated from their families to live in these institutions suffer.
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, from Intrepid Travel, lists six reasons not to visit or volunteer in 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 succinctly lists 10 reasons not to volunteer in 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 shines light on the darkside of volunteering and voluntourism, particularly as the trend grows among young people taking a “gap year.”
GHR Foundation has developed an initiative called the Sister Support initiative which engages and help build capacity of Catholic sisters in Uganda in providing care for vulnerable children and children living outside of family care.
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 offers a brief profile of the response the author received to her documentary film on orphanage volunteering and her thoughts on how to promote positive change.
This article from the Pew Research Center presents statistics on the number of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Europe, and the growth in child migration in the past few years.
This article and corresponding video shine light on the current status of residential institutions for children with disabilities in Mexico, who promised to make changes following Disability Rights International’s report, and the little progress made to right the abuses these children have been subjected to.
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 focuses on the commodification of children as part of the volunteering experience.
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 explains why backpackers and young people on their “gap year” should avoid volunteering in institutions and offers alternatives for those looking to volunteer.