Essays about: "orphans"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 33 essays containing the word orphans.

  1. 6. From orphans to offenders.The framing of unaccompanied minors in Swedish media 2014-2016

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Paul Frigyes; [2017]
    Keywords : ensamkommande; unaccompanied minors; newspapers; framing; refugee crisis; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study tracks the use of the term “ensamkommande” (unaccompanied minors) in five major Swedish newspapers news/reportive articles over the months July 2014 to June 2016, using quantitative content analysis in order to detect shifts in the media frame preferences. The results are set in a context where examples of the recurring article frames are studied, using media framing theory, studying different categories of frames, traits, subject roles and indicators of changing sentiment. READ MORE

  3. 7. Organisational care and psychological treatment of vulnerable children in Maputo, Mozambique : A Minor Field Study

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Sara Ekvall; [2017]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Many children are vulnerable in Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world. The ones considered most vulnerable, so called orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), often live in particularly vulnerable situations that often cause creating psychological distress and traumas. READ MORE

  4. 8. Orphaned children´s school attendance in Kenya

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Andreas Wigren; [2016-09-16]
    Keywords : Human Capital; Education; Kenya; Orphans;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate how school attendance differs for orphan children living at orphanages and orphan children living in the family based care called “Kinship care” in Nairobi, Kenya. The data was retrieved through qualitative interviews with 55 orphan children in Nairobi during a five weeks period in April and May 2016. READ MORE

  5. 9. Children’s villages as a functional equivalent to the ordinary family? A quantitative study among university students raised in children’s villages in Sub-Saharan Africa.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Hanna Ohlsson; Jenny Hagby; [2016-04-15]
    Keywords : Children’s village; Mental health; Social wellbeing; Long term perspective; Orphans and Sub-Saharan Africa.;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate whether children's villages for orphans and children in vulnerable situations can be regarded as functional equivalent to ordinary families from the community, when it comes to promoting mental health and social wellbeing of children. Thus investigate whether children’s villages have functions and provide functions like those of an ordinary family. READ MORE

  6. 10. In the tension between the local and the global : A field study about organizational and cultural challenges faced by NGO:s working with orphans and vulnerable children in Gaborone; Botswana

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HHJ, Avd. för beteendevetenskap och socialt arbete

    Author : Evelyn Lundberg; [2016]
    Keywords : NGO; orphans and vulnerable children; Botswana; social work; new institutionalism;

    Abstract : The HIV and AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa calls a great national and global response in order to face the challenges associated with the illness for the individual, households, community and future of nations. The disease has led to an increased number of orphans and other vulnerable children in Botswana where the non-governmental organizations stand for social service delivery to these children. READ MORE