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Rwanda

RWANDAN GENOCIDE ORPHANS

The 1994 Rwandan Genocide is a tragedy which the world has not, up to date, been able to recover from due to its subsisting side effects. Due to the impact of the…

Barriers to the community support of orphans and vulnerable youth in Rwanda

A consistent theme in the literature on interventions for orphans and vulnerable children is the need for community-based care. However, a number of socio-cultural…

Does the human capital discourse promote or hinder the right to education? The case of girls, orphans and vulnerable children in Rwanda

This paper studies the implications of considering education as a human right and examining it through the lens of the human capital discourse. It uses Polanyi’s…