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Omsorg om barnen! : HUYAWAs arbete för AIDS-föräldralösa barn i Tanzania

Facks, Martin (2002)
School of Social Work
Abstract
Kagera region is the most severely AIDS affected region in Tanzania. With its more than 150.000 AIDS orphans, which is 1/3 of the children of the region, the disease lays a heavy burden on society and on peoples' lives. It has a crucial demographical and economical impact on the society. It kills the productive part of the population and leaves the orphans without financial and psychological support. This situation made the Evangelical Lutheran church of Tanzania (ELCT) start the program HUYAWA in 1989, for the orphans and widows in the region. Since then the program has grown and is today the largest program working for the orphans in Kagera. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the work of HUYAWA with help of specific psychological... (More)
Kagera region is the most severely AIDS affected region in Tanzania. With its more than 150.000 AIDS orphans, which is 1/3 of the children of the region, the disease lays a heavy burden on society and on peoples' lives. It has a crucial demographical and economical impact on the society. It kills the productive part of the population and leaves the orphans without financial and psychological support. This situation made the Evangelical Lutheran church of Tanzania (ELCT) start the program HUYAWA in 1989, for the orphans and widows in the region. Since then the program has grown and is today the largest program working for the orphans in Kagera. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the work of HUYAWA with help of specific psychological theories, namely attachment theory, ecological theory and Atle Dyregrov's theory of children in sorrow/trauma. The question in this paper is: what kind of problems are AIDS orphans facing? This lead to my analyse of the work of HUYAWA. Are HUYAWA confronting the real needs of the children? (Less)
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author
Facks, Martin
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
language
Swedish
id
1358764
date added to LUP
2004-11-08 00:00:00
date last changed
2004-11-08 00:00:00
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  abstract     = {{Kagera region is the most severely AIDS affected region in Tanzania. With its more than 150.000 AIDS orphans, which is 1/3 of the children of the region, the disease lays a heavy burden on society and on peoples' lives. It has a crucial demographical and economical impact on the society. It kills the productive part of the population and leaves the orphans without financial and psychological support. This situation made the Evangelical Lutheran church of Tanzania (ELCT) start the program HUYAWA in 1989, for the orphans and widows in the region. Since then the program has grown and is today the largest program working for the orphans in Kagera. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the work of HUYAWA with help of specific psychological theories, namely attachment theory, ecological theory and Atle Dyregrov's theory of children in sorrow/trauma. The question in this paper is: what kind of problems are AIDS orphans facing? This lead to my analyse of the work of HUYAWA. Are HUYAWA confronting the real needs of the children?}},
  author       = {{Facks, Martin}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Omsorg om barnen! : HUYAWAs arbete för AIDS-föräldralösa barn i Tanzania}},
  year         = {{2002}},
}