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This thesis focuses on children who have lost both parents and are currently living on their own as child headed households (CHHs) in a rural community in Zimbabwe. Children heading households and taking care of siblings is a very “un-childlike” behaviour yet these are growing p…

Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 Abstract William David Floyd Orphans of British Fiction, 1880-1911 focuses on the depiction of orphans in genre fiction of the Victorian fin-de-siecle. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centers particularly on the fo…

This dissertation studies the collaborative efforts between World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) and Wisdom Micro financing Institution, S.C. (WISDOM) to provide caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Ethiopia with microfinance. Because of the millions of new OVCs being …

There are as many as 1.7 million orphans in Egypt, and the Egyptian orphanage sector is largely a non-governmental enterprise relying on private support with minimal government supervision. Increased public demand for adequate social services is aligning with national and intern…