A Review of Interventions Impacting Education Outcomes of Children Living in Preserved Families/Kinship Care or are Orphaned &Vulnerable in Low Resource Countries (original) (raw)

Abstract

Background: Poverty and health-related issues present challenges in the daily lives of those living in low resource countries, threatening family preservation and children’s developmental potential. Over 200 million children are failing to reach growth potentials. Education attainment strongly combats these areas of vulnerability through reductions in poverty/inequality and increases in health/nutrition. Studies conclude that post-institutionalized children from low resource countries have strong resiliency in catching up on educational markers with resources like schooling, nutrition and supportive adoptive families. Objective & Methods: A review was focused on available education intervention outcomes in low resource countries aimed at non-adoptive systems like family preservation, kinship care, or care of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) (children impacted by disease/disability and orphaned through death of one/both parents). Their resiliency is examined with improved access to resources for education attainment/performance. Results: Outcomes noted were primarily from “gray literature” (i.e., World Bank, UNICEF), positively linking access/performance to improved nutrition, health, early cognitive abilities, infectious disease control, use of on-line learning, and structural changes in school systems. Conclusions: Child education attainment/performance resiliency of non-adoptive systems improved with increased access to primary/secondary resources.

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