Ubuntu is fundamentally about community, a quality that includes the essential human virtues of compassion and humanity, as well as how all of our actions affect others and society. It is the common thread running through the United Nations' Global Goals, as well as the driving force behind the mission to end extreme poverty—so that everyone, everywhere, can live equally.
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Psychosocial Support and Education of Vulnerable Children: Implications for Policy and Implimentation
Joyce Mathwasa (University of Fort Hare, South Africa), Zoleka Ntshuntshe (Sol Plaatje University, South Africa), and
Simon G. Taukeni (University of Namibia, Namibia)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8896-3.ch001
Abstract
As confirmed by organizations such as UNAIDS, UNICEF, NGOs, and various authors, the psychological, social, physical, and emotional turmoil caused by varying degrees of violence, abuse, neglect, abandonment, and bereavement have negatively impacted orphans and vulnerable children's education. However, very few studies have been conducted to document the psychosocial support provided to OVC in public schools. Psychosocial support is rarely available to vulnerable children around the world despite the fact that it is a fundamental right for children who have largely gone unacknowledged. Despite signing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, many governments pay lip service to them; thus, the purpose of this chapter is to contextualize them. Educational stakeholders must pay close attention and contribute to the provision of inclusive education that meets the needs of all children. This chapter contributes to a better understanding of the difficulties teachers face when providing psychosocial support to OVC as well as interventions to address these difficulties.