Income Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

Children are considered orphans when one or both parents have died. Other children are vulnerable too. Definitions of orphans and vulnerable children usually include ill children and those with sick caregivers, and sometimes other groups such as street children, children in institutions, child soldiers, child prostitutes, and other groups most of whom are not cared for in a family setting or who are involved in the worst forms of child labor. We 

FOR PROTECTION AND PROMOTION THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFECTIVE SAFETY NETS 

FIGURE 8.1 Sub-Saharan African Countries with Orphaning Rates of 15 Porcont or Creator, 2003 

Botswana Zimbabwe Lesotho Zambia Swaziiand Rwanda Congo, Dem. Rep. of Centrai African Rep. Mozambique Burundi Angola 0.0 

Rates of orphaning have reached huge levels in many countries because of conflict and HIV/AIDS. 

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