Orphan Care Research and Outreach in Uganda: Evaluation of Foster Care Placements—-Community and Legal Outreach
Jini L. Roby,
School of Social Work
This research is conducted on community-based efforts to provide family care for orphans in Uganda, East Africa. The specific aims of the project are three-fold:
- To evaluate a family-based orphan care program through which 800-900 orphans have been placed in substitute families, funded and facilitated by a U.S. based NGO;
- To conduct outreach and training for additional families who can provide orphan care; and
- To work with the Ugandan government to increase resources and provide the legal/policy framework to provide more adequate orphan care, including obtaining funding for subsidies for orphan care and consideration of international adoptions.
