Ahmad Wahidy
I teach at Herat University at Department of Sociology, and I hope to establish Department of Social Work soon. Looking forward to learn from others and build professional bridges.
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Hi,
I would shortly reflect on the two questions below:
1. I have been writing so many reports for different purposes. For instance, I have written research finding reports, project assessment reports, dissertations for my BA and Master degrees as well as recommendation letters. Believe me, I lack a lot of writing skills in academic writing.
2. Academic... -
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Thank you.
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Hello everyone!
I am basically a social work educator with a background of English Literature and English Teaching experiences. In this course, I am willing to accompany few of my students who will soon join the course. They are all girls from Afghanistan who have been deprived of their basic rights including the access to education by the Taliban Extremist... -
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Hello everyone.
This is Hamid coming from Afghanistan but currently living in Germany. I have been delivering online courses both in my field, sociology, and my English language skills. I am sure that this platform would provide new insights and techniques related to teaching methodology. Looking forward to participating and learning from you all. -
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Thank you everyone. With your expert knowledge, experiences and guides, I have successfully completed the course. Afghanistan requires much more support to build its human capital for a peaceful environment where every child enjoys a progressive life.
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Thank you for the fruitful course and friendly platform. I learned a lot not only from the resources and guiding comments of educator but also from all classmates on this platform. Everyone's contribution was vital for my learning. I loved if I could have a video session scheduled to have everyone online at the same time to discuss certain important topics or...
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Thank you.
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What are the key gaps and top priorities for engagement with national governmental counterparts to ensure the protection and well-being of children during COVID-19 or other IDO in your context?
1. Uncertainty of government regarding the preparedness to respond to IDOs.
2. Department of Health does not have an inclusive vision to address IDOs. For instance,... -
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What sectors have you coordinated with?
Government (Department of Labor and Social Affairs, the governor, Social Affairs unit of local government) and non-government (UNICEF CPAN, WARCHILD, SAVE the CHILDREN, NRC, DRC, JRS, and Herat University) sectors.
How has multi-sectoral coordination improved services or child protection outcomes for children and... -
Fruitful points.
I liked the feedback technique after each session. -
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1) Who will participate (e.g., program team, partner organizations, community representatives)?
Partner organizations, team and volunteers from community.
2) What are the key topics to cover?
How to address psychosocial traumas of girl children during COVID-19?
How best to protect children at home?
3) What remote approach/es will be used?
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Thank you for sharing your experiences and inputs. While reading point#2, I was thinking how could flexibility in adapting new methods would ensure sustainability in approach? If you could kindly reflect on this, it would be very much helpful because we have faced problems in sustainability of methods after agreements.
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Here in Afghanistan, SKYPE, ZOOM, MS TEAMs and google forms are used for online trainings and assessments. Of course, online capacity building has its own challenges.
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Thank you for the fruitful learning contents. Looking forward to learning more in last week.
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1. How can local partnerships enhance the protection and well-being of children during COVID-19 and other IDOs?
Local partnership also highlighted as per international goal in SDG, is very much vital in protecting children during IDOs. It provides understanding, develops conscience networking, maintains unity in goal, and promotes sense of ownership to the... -
What additional recommendations would you consider to ensure we build on localization gains in IDO responses to empower communities for years to come?
1. Ensuring there is a strategic plan to address IDOs in a futuristic vision through forming a platform for the interventions of GOs, LNGOs and INGOs in place.
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What is your perception of the steps that PACE took in relation to their ongoing survey when COVID-19 restricted the data collection? In your opinion, were there any other ethical issues that should have been considered?
The only aspect in my opinion is using online method instead of in-person interview and not considering the precautions including wearing... -
Thank you for sharing the Ethical Considerations... publication. This will provide deeper understanding of the research ethics adapted for IDOs.
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Thank you for sharing the great guiding points on remote monitoring.
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Sometimes designing an online form with complicated and research fashioned variables might create ambiguities. Still, online monitoring and surveys are helpful.
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Very fruitful guiding points have been shared. I think the statement "we need to be really building up the capacity and resilience of the workforce" is really relevant to tackle many of highlighted challenges. What do other friends on this platform think about the community setting where such issues raise and are visible to the beneficiaries or target groups?...
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Certainly, there are multiple aspects of risks and challenges of engaging professional at the time of IDOs. Highlighting one, there is possibility of dual responsibility fulfilling leading to miscommunications and misunderstanding of which the community of professionals and target children might get affected.
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Looking forward to learning as in previous weeks in week 5.
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What tip will you take away today for adapting the process of identifying and referring children in vulnerable situations during an IDO such as COVID-19?
Constant meetings, discussions and steps forward are the tips shared in the video which are very much helping in the sense that COVID-19 provided us the lesson to always be flexible and ready to adapt newly... -
What case management adaptation actions have been implemented in your context to support service continuity?
My answer: The ecological perspective to the case management has been practiced in some organizations that I am aware here in Herat.What have been some of the challenges to adapting and continuing case management, and what have you found to work...
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Thank you for sharing.
Has there been any cases of critical challenge in adapting case management process during COVID-19?
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Very instructive step-based guidelines!
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Question: What are your top three tips or considerations to adapt child protection awareness-raising activities for continuity at the community level during IDOs such as COVID-19?
Personal answer:
1. Considering the IDOs precautious measures as practitioners.
2. Ensuring the message has well received and understood by the target age group with... -
A very fruitful video
Actually, the participatory approach is always welcomed by the communities wherever I have worked.
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For the fixed-site loudspeakers, especially in Muslim communities, Masjids are the best sources to start building trust and raise awareness.
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Question 1: What type of community-level child protection activities were you implementing before COVID-19 or other IDOs?
Response: In previous organization I used to work, we provided schooling services, facilitating family and local council sessions in favor of protecting children from hazardous risks, providing nutrition's, etc.Question 2: What steps...
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Thank you for the very much knowledgeful and brilliant discussions. I have learned a lot from everyone on this platform. Looking forward to actively participating in week 4.
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Question: What do you feel are the most critical recommendations for reducing violence, abuse and neglect of children in the home during COVID-19 or other IDOs in your context?
Personal reflection: In our context, specially in communities with traditionalism and extremism life patterns, it is very much practiced to neglect children and ignore their role in... -
Question: what has worked well and what challenges have arisen in adapting activities?
Personal reflection: Some organizations have come up with brilliant initiatives engaging children in activities to keep them safe. I am aware of providing online games, in-person home-based competitions and story telling recording which were compiled and shared with target... -
In this video, it was highlighted that psychosocial support was provided to children and their families. When it comes to supporting children psychosocially, thigs can be easier because they will be easily engaged in recreational activities. A question bumped into my head about types of activities related to psychosocial support provided to families related to...
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What key steps can be taken by you or your organization to reduce risks to children from online engagement?
I think the majority of online protection mechanisms are discussed above. Just to add based on my own experience, recording the sessions, having an external facilitator (external from the meeting not organization), limiting the private chat... are some... -
Definitely important knowledge is shared. Understanding the risk factors, risk context and risk minimization plan are necessary to protect children especially from sexual abuse which is the extreme futuristic potential dehumanizing source.
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Thank you for sharing the WAR CHILD example of safeguarding policy.
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@ClaireWhiting I very much like questioning temperament. This helps us to challenge ourselves as decision makers within organization and most importantly, for the lives of others. Once I was recruited for a short period of time to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization. When coming to policies, many staff admitted they practice safeguarding children and...
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Do you know:
Your personal responsibilities for safeguarding children and adults, including both prevention and response?
The personal responsibility in its very basic step is reporting to the respective officer formally. Subsequently, reporting to line managers with providing evidence.
How your organizational safeguarding policies safeguard children in... -
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I am definitely aware of child safeguarding policies in organizations I am engaged in. Evidences of safeguarding children and women in JRS organization, for instance, is available within the employed staff, within organization and within communities that JRS works. Additionally, code of conduct briefs all program and project staff.
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A very interesting aspect of children's protection within organizations, families and communities. I liked when the safeguarding was raised.
I am studying the organizations in Herat province to observe the safeguarding policies for children. Many organizations have child protection policy whereas the safeguarding policies are missing. -
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Thank you for this fruitful learning week. Looking forward to actively participating in week 3.
This is very persuasive that the lead educator reads every comment and guides accordingly. I consider this as a source of motivation to continue the remaining weeks alongside all the overload work I have.
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Depending on the child-in-situation scenario, the intervention based on the disability (specially abled) vary. Here in Herat, Afghanistan, working with children first requires working with parents or care providers (alternate family). Subsequently, the child especially with disability (specially abled) faced great extend of stigma and discrimination....
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The idea of need assessment prior to intervention is very logical. It is always best to know what people want. This also incorporates the principle of participation.
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@ClaireWhiting Thank you so much for the instruction. I could now download the ppt format in which the edit option is activated.
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The initiatives discussed above are very interesting and can be adapted considering the context of community. Moreover, I was engaged in an initiative in which a group of youth came up with the idea of mobilizing resources to address the basic needs of most vulnerable families within the IDP settlements. They collected monetary assistance and provided rice,...
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The drawing activity with an online-offline pick ups is a very interesting idea which can be adapted through a wide context of communities.
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Apart from the information and knowledge shared through the video, I found the idea of "giving the child a spare to share" very much important and interesting. With this, the children would be provided a safe space to share their interests.
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Respected Lead educator,
I need permission to edit the RISK and PROTECTIVE factor analysis model of socio-ecological model. -
Risk factors
1. Children all along with siblings and parents are at higher risk of domestic violence especially the girls.
2. The loss or challenge in the family's source of income which directly affects children's CHILD-WORLD needs.
Protective factors
1. Willingness of government and INGOs in rendering services related to basic needs.
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I very much liked the way Joan Lombardi discussed risk and protective factors. It is true that family provides support while community enables the family members to be responsive. Responsiveness of family members, considering their own challenges, is sometimes difficult but yet progressive.
Thank you for sharing expert knowledge. -
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This is my personal reflection on the risk and protective factor to Mohammad's case.
Related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the autistic spectrum that Mohammad suffers from is a risk factor through which he finds difficulty in his social communication. The lockdown and limitation to social interaction itself challenges the skills and abilities of all where for... -
Very much looking forward to learning about the practical approaches to foster children's participation in the process of protection and care.
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The principles are very much holistic to the context of child's life.
Thank you for sharing this informative lesson. -
I think as practitioners we need to be clear about our own intervention's objectives as well as the child-in-situation's context preferably the family and neighborhood. Subsequently, the assessment would help us not only to identify the interest and wellbeing of the child but also to mobilize relevant resources within family and community.
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Thank you for sharing the resource.
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The pandemic has really affected children in different ways highlighted in the voices of children. It was disturbing to hear that one child had to do home chores and one was concerned about the emotions while being limited to play with friends.
I look forward to learning throughout week 2 as in week 1.
Thank you for sharing the experiences of children with... -
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This week, however opening and introductory, yet very much informative!
I have learned to read more especially the CPMS in details.
Thank you for providing insightful resources. -
Previously, in initial topics of this course I have raised the concern of children's best interest during the protection. Very informative, insightful and enlightening principles are discussed above. This leads me to study and read more on such principles.
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Thank you for sharing detailed information on protective measures considering the socio-ecological model. I read pillar 3 and found the thirst for reading the entire CPMS Interactive Handbook. Is the soft copy available? I would love to receive it via my personal email to ahmadhamidwahidy@gmail.com
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In Afghanistan we have a very special case of children whose parents are imprisoned. What do classmates and course leader think about protecting children of such cases considering the vulnerability of being manipulated?
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The right aspect of children's protection is vital. Additionally, the proportionality of child's right with the child's participation in decision making becomes very important where the needs of children should also be listened from their own perspective especially when the children in foster care or institutional care are concerned. This also has been...
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The socio-ecological model with its very dynamic characteristic is inclusive considering the social structure of a society. It nicely indicates all the units of social structure through which children could be protected.
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Prior to reflecting on the video and the questions, I would like to emphasize on the fact that the government has to prioritize based on various indicators including economy, poverty and lockdown.
What helps children stay safe during COVID-19 or other IDOs:At the individual level?
Providing alternative recreational tools at its very natural behavior of... -
@ClaireWhiting Thank you so much for sharing this enriching resource.
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@ClaireWhiting Here at department of sociology, I have presented a conference on the system theory and social discrimination much focused on social distance because we have the ethnic group clashes based on which even children discriminate one another based on the clash. Preferably, physical distance and health safety distance are introduced to students and to...
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Very fruitful information!
Thank you.
I have been working as deputy director and program designer for HUPSA (Herat University Peace Studies Association) for the past three years. In one of project activities, we called for research studies related to impact of lockdown on women and children. The results of 4 different studies show relevance of economic... -
@ClaireWhiting I may disagree with concept of social distancing rather naming it physical distancing or health safety distance.
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"The impacts of public health measures on individuals, families and communities may include new and increased incidence of stigma, discrimination, gender inequality, overcrowding, lost livelihoods and poverty across various settings. These are exacerbated by the lack of protection support and make children more vulnerable to psychosocial distress and...
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Hello Hamba,
school issues are wide as you have raised about the pregnancy and likelihood in dropout increase. Here in Afghanistan, our education system is very much instable and unsupportive to children. We have the risk of loosing school system and overlapping of uncertain future. -
Tangaroa, warm greetings from Afghanistan.
You are very right that we are at a transition and recovery stage. Alongside the health issue, there is a great need to rebuild the resilience in communities. There is hope lost in people. This, I personally think, is more dangerous than the virus itself. -
Thank you for sharing the cycle steps. In preparedness step, I think ensuring the source of information and unity in information dissemination is very much important. As a social worker during Lockdown for COVID-19, we face so much trouble in convincing families taking the precautions very seriously. There was very little believe in information provided for...
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Very informative especially the illustrated description of Ebola Virus.
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While reading back on Rift Valley fever (RVF), I noticed the extreme level of vulnerability for everyone especially children of IDP settlements.
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While talking about social distance, considering the sociological aspect of social relations, I prefer to say Physical Distance or Health Safety Distance.
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Very true Alison. PPEs is a must for all health social workers and community health practitioners.
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Thank you for the very brief classification of types of transmissions. The examples are very practical and evidence-based.
Looking forward to learning more.
If the host could kindly share a list of terminologies relatively, it would be very helpful.
Regards,
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Thank you Achieng Kokonya. This is really a proud to learn from you with such eminent experience in the field of Child protection.
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Hello one and all. This is Ahmad from Afghanistan. I basically teach at Herat University, Department of Sociology. But, I am directly engaged in social work activities through Social Work Committee. Besides, I occupy the chair for the Herat Provincial Committee responding to the needs of children with extreme vulnerability.
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Very vital factors at family level you have raised.
I liked when you shared about the non-materialistic variables. -
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I think the vulnerability would be complicated to the physiological, social, and psychological growth and development of the child. Considering each category, I think vulnerability of children would be the potential and possible risks which may be within the family, peer group, neighborhood, school, media, community, and larger society.
Poverty, war,... -
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I am very much interested to learn about the vulnerability assessment especially to the "enough good parenting" concept.
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Great course!
I have chosen the right platform for learning. -
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Hello, this is Ahmad Hamid from Afghanistan. I teach at sociology department of Herat government university. I did my MSW at St. Joseph's College in Bangalore, India in 2015. I am now leading social work committee at social science faculty, and I am directly engaged in designing social development projects for various institutions including HUPSA (Herat...
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I chose the combination. When we discuss the identity and role, we cannot ignore the culture, social structures, and social functioning. The system theory also provides us with basic understanding of how ,however, system also matters in the way we behave and internalize the binary.
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I enjoyed reading the natural gender attributes.
Some of the patriarchal ideologies are still within the constitutional laws rooted in conventional laws. Still women are being called heros if they appear to have a violent attitude towards the social relations. Subsequently, the objectivization of women in traditional societies is concretely designed within... -
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I am encouraging my students to join this course; yet language is a barrier for many of them.
Such education is very much needed for everyone to understand the context of sex and gender especially when it comes to social development and cultural understandings. -
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Very interesting idea when you have nicely raised that "older people" can be part of learning process.
We are all vulnerable to the generation gap. -
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Who are you and where are you from?
This is Ahmad Hamid from Afghanistan. I teach at Herat government university at the department of sociology.
Why have you taken the course and what aspect of the history of gender and sexuality are you interested in?
Studying about gender and sex with a holistic perspective to the history of gender formation and changes.... -
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Hello everyone.
This is Ahmad Hamid from Afghanistan. I teach at a government university, and I am a social worker in my profession. I am interested to learn about women's history and to compare what women experienced in Afghanistan. -
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Thank you all for making this course very fruitful and reflective.
Initially, I was thinking of getting a certificate of this course. Now things are quite different. I am now thinking of how should I and my team at Herat University take this forward. I am now thinking how the Civil Society Network, local government, advocates and social workers would play a... -
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This course was very much informative, thought provoking, reflective, enriching and empowering. I now know things about the principles of necessity and suitability. I have downloaded materials to read in details and to teach the Social Work Committee at Herat University.
This learning would not end here for me. It has just started to explore more on the case... -
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Thinking about the “necessity” principle, now you have completed the course, do you think differently about the task of preventing unnecessary use of alternative care?
Yes. The gatekeeping is a very important aspect of practicing necessity principle.
Thinking about the “suitability” principle, do you think more could be done in your country, to improve... -
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Do you think what happened to Asha and Lan also happens to children in other countries?
Yes, but it could be different.
If you had been Asha and Lan’s social worker would you have done anything differently, and if so, what would it have been?
I would have talked to the parents, conduct sessions before reintegrating and visit after the reintegration.
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Is there a formal government regulated process in your country for those transitioning out of care into independent living and, if yes, do you think it fulfils all the wishes and needs of care leavers?
No. The only alternative care in province where I live is the orphanage providing the very basic physical needs plus schooling. The children become young... -
Sometimes it is very important that follow up should be in place even at schools either through the social work-based institutions or community support group so that stigma and discrimination are avoided for the care leavers.
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Are there active programmes sponsored by the government in your country to reunify children?
We do not have much facilities for such systems, but the existence of alternative care provides the very basic services (through orphanages only) for a very long time. Reintegration is a whole new thing especially to those children affected by war.
Do you think...
