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Tag Archives: Children
Good intentions are enough – to ‘nearly kill’ a local kid
Who has the right to make decisions about a child's health? An anonymous contributor describes how a situation where an NGO took responsibility for the care of an 11-year-old boy was nearly disastrous for the child, and how it raised all kinds of ethical questions about a child's care....
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Where are the children? Orphanage voluntourism in Ghana
Do children in orphanages benefit from their contact with volunteers? Hanna Tabea Voelkl draws on her field research in Ghana to consider children's perspectives....
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Teaching children journalism to strengthen democracy and development
Much of the world expects journalists to hold the government to account through their reporting. In Bangladesh, media repression and lack of resources hamper the ability to report effectively on challenges facing Bangladeshis. As Jessica Carter describes, in one Bangladeshi neighbourhood, children are being taught the skills to share their...
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A Rising Tide: The Invisible Grassroots “Movement” for Children in Africa
"Even when things were hard, I now realize how much that love, care and protection existed around me and strengthened me." Countless community-based organizations are extending emotional support to children and families not sufficiently reached by government or international agencies....
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Literacy in Development: the flaws with using literacy rates to inform development policy (part 3)
In her third post on literacy and development, Alex Grey examines some of the issues associated with using literacy rates as a measurement to inform development policy, and shows how problematic approaches to monitoring literacy can lead to problems on the ground....
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Education still a long way off for children with disabilities in poverty
The cycle of poverty and disability can be broken, argues Lucy Daniel of CBM Australia. But, although the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and AusAID include girls and children with disabilities in education programs they fund in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines, what is happening on the ground...
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Disability in China and Australia: hardly worlds apart.
As a former worker in a disability NGO in Australia, who then moved to rural Southern China to take up a post with Handicap International, Weh reflects on the differences in working in both fields, and wonders whether they are not as far apart as initially perceived....
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If you were President of Ghana…
CitiFM, a radio station in Ghana, is asking children how they would use the country's oil revenues if they were President. If you were President, or Prime Minister (or even Supreme Overlord), of your respective country, how would you use revenues from resources such as oil? Although some children may...
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Child poverty in context: more than one way forward
CIDA, AusAID and USAID have prioritised poverty alleviation as a primary objective of their respective aid programs. Economic growth is also among the primary commitments of these governmental organisations. Janet Newbury argues that insisting on prioritising growth in efforts to alleviate poverty (at home or abroad) is not only misleading,...
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Crazy bake: the black dog of development?
In this post, Brendan has a look at Crazy Bake, an NGO located that seeks to include those with mental health problems in baking and other social and economic activities at a hospital in Beijing. Although, he has a few misgivings about this organisation, in the broader context of mental...
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