Transitioning from institutional care of orphans to community-based care: The experience of Ethiopia’s Jerusalem Association Children’s Homes (original) (raw)

Abstract

A number of JACH’s experiences during its first ten years of caring for orphans contributed to the 1996 decision to deinstitutionalize. As the years passed and the children in JACH homes grew, JACH staff observed that the children had little knowledge about their society and the world at large due to their lack of exposure to community life. Many orphans felt alienated from their nonorphaned classmates. Some orphans exhibited aggressive behavior in school, partly because they were labeled as orphans and mocked by other students.

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