Children
Poverty impacts brain development in children
Earth.com
Physical changes in the brain caused by poverty are a major contributor to the struggles faced by people in low economic situations.
Why Are We Quiet About Child Marriages in Zambia? - TGC Africa
TGC Africa
Zambian police report that a 19-year-old girl beat her 26-year-old husband to death, completely overlooking that this is yet another case of child marriage
Why Are We Quiet About Child Marriages in Zambia? - TGC Africa
TGC Africa
Zambian police report that a 19-year-old girl beat her 26-year-old husband to death, completely overlooking that this is yet another case of child marriage
At least 233 children died of hunger in Colombia in 2023
Adriaan Alsema-Colombia News | Colombia Reports
At least 233 children under five years old died of starvation in Colombia in 2023, according to the country’s Ombudsman’s Office. Ombudsman Carlos Camargo raised the alarm based on statistics…
UNICEF: Children in Haiti Need More Help Now
UNICEF USA
UNICEF warned world leaders of a rapidly deteriorating situation in Haiti, appealing for more international support to meet urgent needs.
Half of children in poorer countries have lead poisoning, says study
the Guardian
Health crisis has been ‘neglected’, particularly in low-income countries, and it’s killing three times more people than lung cancer
Threats against rape victim, 10, lay bare Boliviaâs culture of sexual violence
the Guardian
Supporters of alleged rapist, girlâs 39-year-old headmaster, stormed police station in effort to prevent arrest
High inflation means children go hungry around the world, survey shows
Reuters
High levels of inflation and increased costs of living are contributing to worldwide hunger, according to a survey of 16 countries commissioned by the humanitarian group World Vision International.
Global priority for the care of orphans and other vulnerable children: transcending problem definition challenges - Globalization and Health
BioMed Central
Background Tens of millions of children lack adequate care, many having been separated from or lost one or both parents. Despite the problem’s severity and its impact on a child’s lifelong health and wellbeing, the care of vulnerable children—which includes strengthening the care of children within families, preventing unnecessary family separation, and ensuring quality care alternatives when reunification with the biological parents is not possible or appropriate—is a low global priority. This analysis investigates factors shaping the inadequate global prioritization of the care of vulnerable children. Specifically, the analysis focuses on factors internal to the global policy community addressing children’s care, including how they understand, govern, and communicate the problem. Methods Drawing on agenda setting scholarship, we triangulated among several sources of data, including 32 interviews with experts, as well as documents including peer-reviewed literature and organizational reports. We undertook a thematic analysis of the data, using these to create a historical narrative on efforts to address children’s care, and specifically childcare reform. Results Divisive disagreements on the definition and legitimacy of deinstitutionalization—a care reform strategy that replaces institution-based care with family-based care—may be hindering priority for children’s care. Multiple factors have shaped these disagreements: a contradictory evidence base on the scope of the problem and solutions, divergent experiences between former Soviet bloc and other countries, socio-cultural and legal challenges in introducing formal alternative care arrangements, commercial interests that perpetuate support for residential facilities, as well as the sometimes conflicting views of impacted children, families, and the disability community. These disagreements have led to considerable governance and positioning difficulties, which have complicated efforts to coordinate initiatives, precluded the emergence of leadership that proponents universally trust, hampered the engagement of potential allies, and challenged efforts to secure funding and convince policymakers to act. Conclusion In order to potentially become a more potent force for advancing global priority, children’s care proponents within international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental agencies working across countries will need to better manage their disagreements around deinstitutionalization as a care reform strategy.
Plight of Nigeria’s children getting worse
Punch Editorial Board-Punch Newspapers
A new World Bank report revealing that over 40 million Nigerian children live in extreme poverty, underscores how deep the country has slid into the poverty hole.
UNICEF: Nearly 1 million children in Mali threatened with acute malnutrition
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In Mali escalating armed conflict, mass displacement, and restricted humanitarian access is putting the most vulnerable at risk.According to UNICEF, nearly 1...
Thousands of children in Niger at risk of severe nutritional crisis as border closures leave trucks stranded - Niger
ReliefWeb
News and Press Release in English on Niger about Food and Nutrition and Protection and Human Rights; published on 21 Sep 2023 by WFP
US poverty rate jumped in 2022, child poverty more than doubled: Census
ABC News-ABC News
The poverty rate in the United States increased last year, the first increase in 13 years, according to the Census Bureau.
More than 330 million children still in extreme poverty: UNICEF
CNA
WASHINGTON: The COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published on Wednesday (Sep 13).
Haiti gangs take aim at disabled children: ‘Put those kids out of their misery or we will’
Jacqueline Charles - Miami Herald (TNS)-Leader-Telegram
Born with cerebral palsy and a build-up of fluid in his brain, Wasserman, 7 years old, hadn’t eaten in days when he and two other severely disabled children were rushed
UNICEF: Famine Threatens 6 Million Children in Yemen | Sada Elbalad
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that 6 million children in Yemen face the threat of starvation unless urgent measures are taken to ensure adequate funding to provide life-saving aid.
New report shows alarming rise in poverty among Pasifika children
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Research charity, Cure Kids, released its annual report this month, highlighting New Zealand's alarming rise in child poverty.
The Global Cost of Childhood Malnutrition
Childhood malnutrition has lifelong consequences for individuals and the global community. Here’s what you can do to help.
Indian drugs led to child deaths in Gambia: Panel
The Economic Times
The report, submitted to the Gambian health ministry earlier this year and not yet made public, is the most definitive statement yet on the cause of the episode. It contradicts the official position of Indian authorities, who insist that the country's products weren't to blame. A director for the Gambian ministry of health didn't respond to calls and an emailed request for comment.
Nutrition for Resilient Futures
Kristen Callaway-Food for the Hungry
THE PROBLEM: Each year, nearly 3 million children under 5 years of age will die from malnutrition, making it the single largest cause of child deaths.
Haiti conflict puts over 100,000 kids at risk of starving to death, UN says
Reuters
More than 115,600 children in Haiti are expected to suffer severe wasting from malnutrition this year, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday, as an escalation of armed violence worsens food insecurity and a cholera outbreak.
World Orphans Day 2023: A Look at Orphanes
News Track
May 7 is marked as World AIDS Orphans Day, a grassroots campaign designed to generate awareness and promote advocacy for the more than 15 mi..|News Track
Ending Poverty Through Girls’ Education - BORGEN
The Borgen Project-BORGEN
Ending poverty through girls’ education is the primary solution to the impending issue. Malala Yousfazai is a women’s rights advocate spe...
Children in Afghanistan dying from preventable diseases, says charity - BBC News
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Warning: This film shows distressing scenes of children in Afghanistan in their final moments.More than 1,000 children under the age of five are dying in Afg...
90% of adolescent girls and young women in poor countries are deprived of the Internet
Globe Echo
A report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that the Internet is not available to 90% of adolescent girls and young women in the poorest countries, in a higher percentage than that of males within the same age group, stressing the role that education plays in this disparity. In 2020, UNICEF and the […]
The disease that kills the most children is preventable and curable, but only in rich countries
Beatriz Lecumberri, Ana Carbajosa-EL PAÃS English
Pneumonia is a silent pandemic that causes more deaths than the coronavirus, but receives neither the attention nor funding necessary to combat it. Around 700,000 children under the age of five die every year from it, mostly in poor countries
Eritrea: Reflection On 'Child Mortality - an Overview of History and Progress'
allAfrica.com
Analysis - On Friday, April 21, in an event organized by the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Eritrea and the PFDJ office for Institutions of Higher Education, Dr. Fikreyesus's book "Child Mortality in Eritrea- an overview of history and progress" was celebrated and introduced to Eritrean readers. The event was attended by students from Orotta College of Medicine and Health Science, College of Engineering and College of Sciences. At the event reflections on the book were presented by Chinese embassy offic
DRC’s Underage Metal Collectors Fend for Themselves
Global Press Journal
In Kisangani, a growing number of children are risking stigma, injury and arrest in the pursuit of income.
Orphans working hard to survive
The Star
JOHOR BARU: It’s been almost a year since they opened a wantan mee stall to fend for themselves after becoming orphans.
Ukraine War: 15 orphans illegally taken to Russia, their escape, and the fate of those left behind
YouTube
Sky News speaks to 15 Ukrainian orphans taken at gunpoint and illegally transferred to Russia about their remarkable escape. And we reveal what life is like ...
The Children of the Water, Part 1: Starvation amid heavy floods in South Sudan | Nightline
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ABC Newsâ David Muir travels to South Sudan where humanitarian workers are rushing to provide aid to families on the brink of famine.WATCH NIGHTLINE EPISODES...
Burkina Faso Sees More Child Soldiers As Jihadi Attacks Rise
MENAFN
DORI- Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, Fatima Amadou was shocked by what she saw among the attackers: children.<br /> Guns slung over t
The Reality of Ukrainian Children's Abduction By Russians
Poverty Updares
Russia kidnapped Ukrainian kids away from their parents and their country.
Ukraine to call for creation of international framework to restore orphans | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
NHK WORLD
The Ukrainian government has announced its intention to seek the creation of an international framework aimed at restoring orphans allegedly taken to Russia from war zones in Ukraine in an illegal way.
Nearly a million children from Africa's Sahel area will face 'severe wasting', says UN children's agency
Firstpost
UNICEF said in a statement that 'an estimated 970,000 children under 5 from West Africa's three central Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) will face severe wasting this year'
Ukraine insists that 4,396 orphans deported by Russia be returned
As many as 4,396 orphan children were illegally taken to the territory of Russia or temporarily occupied territories and Ukraine insists on their return. â Ukrinform.
Video: 'We’ll kill you': Troops film boys' killings in Burkina Faso
AP NEWS
A video in Burkina Faso showing men in military fatigues walking among the bloodied bodies of boys with their hands bound surfaced on social media in mid-February. It shows a man slamming a rock onto the head of a 16-year-old named Adama as another man laughed. Burkina Faso has been wracked by violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that has killed thousands. But some civilians say they are even more afraid of Burkina Faso’s security forces. The military junta has denied its security forces were involved, but a frame-by-frame analysis by The Associated Press of the 83-second video shows the killings happened inside a military base in the country's north.
UN: Children in Central African Republic Are Victims of Appalling Abuse, Brutality
VOA
UN high commissioner for human rights said children were not spared the ravages of the conflict that has been ongoing since 2012, noting that girls especially were subjected to horrific acts of sexual violence linked to the conflict
After eight years of conflict and despite a fragile truce, childbirth still a matter of life and death in Yemen
Yemen
Eight years ago, as the war escalated dramatically and health facilities were barely functioning or standing due to violence, Zahra went into early labour with her third child. She was acutely malnourished – a dangerous condition that affects some 1.5 million pregnant and breastfeeding women in Yemen – and without any health staff to support the premature delivery, her situation was life-threatening.
Guinea's Ebola orphans feel abandoned – DW – 03/21/2023
dw.com
It is a decade since the Ebola virus swept across West Africa, leaving more than 11,000 dead. In Guinea, those who were orphaned in the outbreak say they now feel abandoned by society and the government.
Guatemala takes back 106 unaccompanied children and teen migrants
Reuters
More than 100 children and teen migrants from Guatemala were flown home on Wednesday after being found in a truck trailer in Mexico headed to the U.S., one of the largest recent returns of unaccompanied minors back to the Central American country.
Orphan from Volgograd complains about problems with obtaining housing
Кавказский Узел-Caucasian Knot
Alexander, a resident of Volgograd, has complained that after graduating from the orphanage, through the fault of the school administration, he found himself without a registration, and that authorities for a long time failed to provide him with housing due to him by the law.
Ukrainian children orphaned by war âneed a tremendous amount of helpâ
the Guardian
President of Los Angeles-based nonprofit Kidsave says Americans need to be made aware that Ukrainiansneeds go beyond military aid
Syria orphans from quake taken in by overwhelmed relatives
AP NEWS
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian baby girl whose mother gave birth to her while trapped under the rubble of their home during this week’s devastating earthquake now has a name: Aya, Arabic for “a sign from God.” With her parents and all her siblings killed, her great-uncle will take her in.
Passport rush blamed on US policy stalls adoptions in Haiti
ABC News-ABC News
Children are stuck in orphanages across Haiti, unable to leave the increasingly volatile country and start new lives with adoptive parents
131,000 children orphaned by pandemic at risk
The Yucatan Times
According to the Report on the Family in Mexico 2022: Challenges and Transformations in the Key of Hope, carried out by the Center for Family, Bioethics and Society Studies (CEFABIOS) of the Pontif…
Orphans and Vulnerable Children Essentials Course - CAFO Resources
CAFO Resources
Welcome to OVC Essentials! We are so glad you’re here! This course offers resources and learning focused on best practices across a variety of topics that will educate, inspire and equip you for wise and effective service to vulnerable children. Our core objectives: Understand the central, unique, and critical role of God’s people in caring […]
A Continuum of Care
Faith to Action
A Continuum of Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (PDF Download) Translation: SPANISH Infographic: ENGLISH | SPANISH A Continuum of Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children provides an overview of a range of alternative care options for children who
