Essays about: "orphans"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 33 essays containing the word orphans.

  1. 11. CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS (CCTs), EDUCATION AND LABOR MARKETS: An inquiry into poverty reduction in Ghana through the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Maria Bruce; [2016]
    Keywords : Conditional Cash Transfer CCT ; Ghana; Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty LEAP ; education; labor market; poverty; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate short term poverty and reduce intergenerational poverty by supplying targeted poor households with cash transfers contingent upon certain program parameters, such as school attendance for children. Evaluation on CCTs have found that such programs generally increase school enrolment and school attendance but its subsequent effect on labor market participation is only assumed without sufficient evidence. READ MORE

  3. 12. A child belongs to the whole community.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Lovisa Strömberg; Josefin Svensson; [2015-01-22]
    Keywords : Institutional care; family-based care; orphans and convention of the rights of the child.;

    Abstract : This qualitative study has taken place in Burundi. Burundi suffers from years of violence and diseases like HIV/AIDS. Many parents have passed away or are not capable to take care of their children, which are leading to a lot of Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVC). READ MORE

  4. 13. Toward Innumerable Futures: Frank Stanford & Origins

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Adam Walton; [2015]
    Keywords : Parents; Adoption; Origins; Poetry; Poet; Children; Orphans; Identity; Compendium of Characters; The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You; Bibliography; Critical; Biography; Francis Gildart; Frank Stanford; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is a combined critical, biographical, and bibliographical study of American poet Frank Stanford (1948-1978). A prodigious, prolific poet's poet, Stanford is a long-underappreciated artist whose unwavering legacy, in recent years, has grown to be an undeniable force in contemporary American poetry. READ MORE

  5. 14. Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre : A Comparison of Orphans in Victorian Literature

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Eva Persson; [2014]
    Keywords : workhouses; Charles Dickens; Charlotte Brontë; orphanage; education; boarding schools; fattighus; Dickens; barnhem; utbildning; internatskolor; Languages and Literatures;

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  6. 15. The orphan and the saviour- a relationship of love, gratitude and commodities : A critical discourse analysis of the construction of the narrative about the helper and the orphanage child.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Britta Holmberg; [2014]
    Keywords : Voluntourism; orphanage tourism; Otherness; discourse; orphanage; orphan; development aid; volunteering; volunteers; Voluntourism; barnhemsturism; den Andre; diskurs; barnhem; föräldralösa barn; bistånd; volontärarbete; volontärer;

    Abstract : This study explores the construction of the orphanage child and the helper in the context of voluntourism, orphanage tourism, support and establishment of orphanages. Since residential care is rarely put forward as a “good solution” for children without parental care in Sweden or other Western countries, the purpose of this study is to understand how orphanages for children from the South are legitimised as a solution in narratives about the helpers and the orphans. READ MORE