The Intervention Practices and Challenges of Orphan Children: the case of Markato Child and Family Charitable Society
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2014-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The study attempts to explore the intervention practices of Merkato Child and Family Charitable
Society (MCFCS ) and the challenges of the orphan children supported by the charitable society
in Woreda 6 and 7 of Addis Ketema Sub-city. It also assesses the major benefits provided by the
MCFCS and the roles and responses of various stakeholders on the major challenges that the
orphans are facing. To understand the research problem, the target populations of the study are
double orphan children supported by MCFCS.
Stratified, lottery and purposive sampling
techniques were employed to determine the study sample sizes. In-depth interviews, focus group
discussions and key informant interviews were used for the qualitative where as survey
questionnaires for the quantitative were employed to gather data. The qualitative methods was
analyzed through thematic analysis where as the data collected by the survey questionnaires
were analyzed based on research questions and with Statistical Package for Social Science
(SPSS). The findings of this study indicate that orphan children have faced psychological
problems, lack of food, inability to cover expenses of health care, shelter are the major economic
challenges for the orphan children and their caregivers in the study area. Physical, emotional,
and sexual abuses are the major social challenges where female orphan children are more
vulnerable to social challenges. There is weak coordination, networking and partnership m in
the organization and among the stakeholders. The organization should opt for additional fund
raising strategies to address the needs of orphan children. It should alternatively need to provide
the psychosocial support services to address the problems of orphan children and there should
be an effort to arrange family economic strengthening initiatives or income generating schemes.
An integrated coordination has to be in place for adequate, quality and sustainable service
provisions
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Markato Child and Family Charitable Society