The present study investigates the educational problems faced by child-headed households in Urban settlements in Kenya. These households are a result of challenges such as parental deaths (mainly due to HIV and AIDS). Such households have become an increasingly common occurrence in Sub-Saharan Africa, as a result, in particular, of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This has caused millions of children to become orphaned, and has brought about new coping mechanisms. There has been considerable interest in Kenya’s progress with regard to the emergence of child headed families and this can be seen by way of the number of NGOs interested in this subject. Despite living under very pathetic and harsh conditions, orphans in CHHs have been known to develop un...
Children heading households (CHH) in urban informal settlements face specific vulnerabilities shaped...
Although the impact of AIDS-induced mortality and morbidity is well-researched, few studies explore ...
The study aimed at finding out what enables children orphaned by AIDS who live in orphanages to thri...
This study is centred on the phenomenon of the child headed household in urban informal settlements ...
It is estimated that 2,3 million children today in South Africa are orphaned mainly due to HIV...
This paper analyses factors associated with the establishment of 43 child- and adolescent-headed hou...
Child-headed households are a common family arrangement in the coastal region of Kenya and beyond. T...
The emergence of Child-Headed Households (CHH) and Young Adult Households (YAH) has largely been tak...
HIV and AIDS related deaths have left numerous children heading households as the number of adults ...
Occurrence of orphans has been in every society since time immemorial. In some societies, they have ...
Reflecting dominant understandings of childhood, many researchers describe orphans as an emotional a...
This thesis focuses on the everyday life experience of children living in household headed by a chil...
MSW, North-West University, Mafikeng CampusThe phenomenon of orphaned children heading households wi...
Importance: In 2015, there were nearly 140 million orphaned children globally, particularly in low- ...
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has continued to ravage many populations in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa has ...
Children heading households (CHH) in urban informal settlements face specific vulnerabilities shaped...
Although the impact of AIDS-induced mortality and morbidity is well-researched, few studies explore ...
The study aimed at finding out what enables children orphaned by AIDS who live in orphanages to thri...
This study is centred on the phenomenon of the child headed household in urban informal settlements ...
It is estimated that 2,3 million children today in South Africa are orphaned mainly due to HIV...
This paper analyses factors associated with the establishment of 43 child- and adolescent-headed hou...
Child-headed households are a common family arrangement in the coastal region of Kenya and beyond. T...
The emergence of Child-Headed Households (CHH) and Young Adult Households (YAH) has largely been tak...
HIV and AIDS related deaths have left numerous children heading households as the number of adults ...
Occurrence of orphans has been in every society since time immemorial. In some societies, they have ...
Reflecting dominant understandings of childhood, many researchers describe orphans as an emotional a...
This thesis focuses on the everyday life experience of children living in household headed by a chil...
MSW, North-West University, Mafikeng CampusThe phenomenon of orphaned children heading households wi...
Importance: In 2015, there were nearly 140 million orphaned children globally, particularly in low- ...
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has continued to ravage many populations in the world. Sub-Saharan Africa has ...
Children heading households (CHH) in urban informal settlements face specific vulnerabilities shaped...
Although the impact of AIDS-induced mortality and morbidity is well-researched, few studies explore ...
The study aimed at finding out what enables children orphaned by AIDS who live in orphanages to thri...