CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR COPING WITH THE ORPHAN AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN AT FOSTER HOMES IN RUBAGA DIVISION
Statement of the problem
Over the last three decades, the world has witnessed unprecedented upheavals manifesting through civil conflicts, epidemics and natural calamities of varying intensity and scale. As a result, many lives have been lost and maimed, leaving behind thousands of helpless dependants. At the end of 2003, there were an estimated 143 million orphans in the world (UNAIDS, 2004), this has thus increased on the need for foster homes.
Uganda as a country has been prone to wars, civil unrest and disasters including road accidents, drought and famine, family break down, HIV and AIDS epidemic, which has exceeded, in terms of cumulative deaths, morbidity and social disintegration, all these calamities has increased on the suffering leading to the need for the development of forster homes to be in position to take care of orphans and vulnerable children.
Forster homes in Uganda has not been given much priority by the government as a result Uganda has only 82 approved foster homes as of march, 2019, thought there are many orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda who stay in the streets of Kampala and some in the villages who live in despicable conditions and as a result foster homes which exist have very few facilities which are not able to provide suitable facilities to enhance better quality of life for these children .
Its against this background that this research intends to investigate into the challenges and strategies for coping with the orphan and vulnerable children at foster homes in Rubaga Division, Kampala .
