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    Experience, Challenge and Coping Strategy of Students from Low Income Households, Focusing on Entoto Amba Secondary School
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-11) Tesfaye, Aboneh; Hebo, Mamo (PhD)
    This research was aimed to explore experience, challenge and coping strategies of students from low income household of Entoto Amba Secondary School. In the accomplishment of this thesis a qualitative research approach was employed using 25 students from grade 9 and 10. Primary data was generated through observation, interview, focus group discussion and individual case study methods. Children supposed to grow and learn in a favorable environment but large number of Entoto Amba secondary school students have been living struggling with poverty and faced with several socio-economic challenges. Most of the challenges were like depression, sleeping in class room while teaching and learning is progress, collapsing, social exclusion, school dropout and absenteeism. To cope with food insecurity students from low income families of Entoto Amba secondary school have been involving in activities like begging, street vending, commercial sex working, being weyala (money collector for taxi), changing coin for taxi, reducing quality and quantity of food intake, consuming trimming or leftover food (bulle). Even if government of Ethiopia together with NGOs have been doing good attempts through productive safety net and school meal programs to improve the life of students from low income households in general and child poverty in particular, the problems related to school children remained major challenges due to absence of school meal program at the high school level. The researcher suggested that, expanding school meal program service at the high school level would reduce the problem in a visible manner. Key words; Poverty, child poverty, food security, experience, Challenge and Coping strategy