HIV/AIDS is one of the leading and fastest growing causes of child vulnerability in the world. The pandemic affects an increasing number of children every year leaving them with ailing or absent caregivers, on the streets, stigmatized or sick themselves and often without the support they need to overcome these circumstances. Youth represent the group at the greatest risk of contracting HIV/AIDS while also representing a potentially powerful source of change. This section of the site aggregates resources related to improving the economic well being of children affected by HIV/AIDS by working with them, their caregivers and their communities.
Assessment of orphaned children living with grandparents in Tanzania
This report is the result of a series of participatory workshops with children who are part of the Kwa Wazee Project in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a small monthly pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers) who are caretakers for orphaned children.
The report provides an understanding of the issues children are facing and directions for policy and programme intervention. It is clear that children living in elderly-headed households have more stressors in their lives than children living with parents. The findings in this study suggest that the following characterise the issues affecting elderly-headed households:
- poverty
- grandchildren as caretakers
- an uncertain future
- a generation gap
Creator:
Glynis Clacherty
Publisher:
HelpAge International
Date:
2008
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