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Support and Training Needs of Caregivers
20. Please tell us what the support needs are of people
like you who care for and support orphans and vulnerable
children?
Probe:
• Elderly people, such as 80-year-old grandparents
• Child heads of household
• Loans as opposed to grants
21. What are the training needs of people like you who
care for and support orphans and vulnerable children?
Probe:
• Child heads of households (Example: skills in childcare,
hygiene, skills in managing a home and budgeting)
• Caregivers who have never had children of their
own/little or no experience in raising a child
Community Mobilization and Involvement
22. Recognizing that communities are the front line for
caring and supporting orphans and vulnerable children,
do you have any ideas about how we can
increase the capacity and numbers of community
members to take responsibility for orphans and vulnerable
children? (Examples: helping communities
identify problems among vulnerable children and
families and ways to support them; encouraging leaders
to protect the property and inheritance rights of
widows and orphans; organizing cooperative childcare
or labor support; training community members
to assess needs and provide support; organizing
orphan visiting programs; respecting communities’
decision-making structures as they develop and
implement assistance programs; enhancing communities’
ability to target assistance to vulnerable families)
23. What do people mean when they say, “AIDS came
for people”? What do you think of this statement?
24. Please tell us what you think our next steps should
be.
Thank you for your time and all the wonderful ideas you
shared with us.
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