Project

Sponsoring the children Uganda

Code
13V27808
Duration
06 March 2008 → 06 March 2011
Funding
Federal funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Orthopedagogics and special education
Keywords
children uganda
 
Project description

The development Sponsoring Children Uganda so through the Rachele Rehabilitation Center in northern Uganda led by Ms Els De Temmerman provided the care and supervision of child soldiers, ends with a positive balance of 87 000 euro and an archive of intake specifications and follow up cases of three thousand children plus information and school records of two thousand former child soldiers receive financial support through the association Sponsoring Kindern Uganda for education and training. To prevent the accumulation of information about child soldiers and the local expertise in the care and supervision of these children would be lost at the end of the project, the remaining amount will be used for the development of an inter-university center that provides short-term a inventaisering, management and the possibility of the scientific study of the archives of the Rachele Rehabilitation Center and the local expertise in the care and supervision of child soldiers. The inventory, management and the scientific study of the archives and the expertise of the Rachele Rehabilitation Center will be embedded in the medium term the further development of an inter-university research center for 'forgotten children' '. It is the study of the care and supervision of children who face violence and war, including child soldiers, street children and had not accompanied minor refugees. In the long term, the study should lead to expertise and documentation that the knowledge and expertise in the field of care and supervision of children facing violence bundles and integrates into partnerships.