Examining the Role of Foster Care on the Wellbeing of Children at Love Without Boundaries Mukono District
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2025-02-14
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Uganda Christian University
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Foster care has been in operation for many decades in most organisations worldwide. They also exist in Africa and, particularly in Uganda. Their role has been tremendous, as many abandoned children, orphaned, and disadvantaged children have been given support in the form of foster homes, medication, and education, with a view of improving the social setup of many communities that were formally overridden by the problem of homeless, abandoned, and disadvantaged children. In Uganda, for instance, there has been a 70 percent increase in children living in the streets since 1993, with an approximate total of about ten thousand in 2014. Uganda has opened 1.7 million children, and a third of all Ugandan families have had to foster orphaned children. It is until recently that it hosted close to 1.3 million refugees, with the recent South Sudan and Dr. Congo refugee influx, including survivors of sexual violence and separated/unaccompanied children who urgently require foster family protection. There have been several organizations that provided foster homes, such as Love without Boundaries in the Mukono district, which played the same purpose and whose impact has been felt in the area of operation. However, despite its good vision, it is still faced with a lot of challenges including huge number of children to look after, inadequate facilitation in form of funds and increased infrastructure needs, among other problems associated with the withdrawal of international partners. For this reason, the researcher has undertaken to carry out a research intended to examine the role of foster care on wellbeing for children at Love without boundaries, a case study of Mukono district.
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