Publication: Reaching out to Africa’s Orphans A Framework for Public Action
Date
2005-01
ISSN
Published
2005-01
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
Conflicts and the HIV-AIDS pandemic are
generating a major humanitarian crisis in Sub-Saharan
Africa: the number of children who have lost one or both
parents is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010. Even
prior to the death of parents, children are vulnerable as
prolonged sickness of a parent robs them of their childhood,
often forcing them to become breadwinners. The risk of
orphanhood is no longer a random shock affecting a few
families; it is a systemic shock affecting whole communities
and large segments of the population.
Citation
“World Bank. 2005. Reaching out to Africa’s Orphans A Framework for Public Action. Social Safety Nets Primer Notes; No. 18. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/278ac58b-062d-5d03-907a-d80ad19bf3d9 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”