Rwanda has improved in many sectors including governance, poverty reduction and overall improvements of living conditions. However, the childhood stunting rates remain among the highest worldwide with 38%. Stunting has the tendency to be an invisible problem in Rwanda, yet it has devastating consequences …

This research looks into how the Europe 2020 poverty target affected child poverty development trends that took place between 2015 and 2018 in both the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Presentatie aan team F SW-Voltijd ; uitleg over de handreiking opgroeien in armoede in het sociaal domein.

Eén op de twaalf kinderen in Nederland groeit op in armoede (CBS, 2019). Dat zijn er gemiddeld twee in elke schoolklas. Omdat geldzorgen thuis de ontwikkeling van leerlingen ernstig kunnen belemmeren, maken leerkrachten zich zorgen over de kansen van deze leerlingen. Dit artikel bespreekt hoe scholen …

ADHD en reïficatie Dit proefschrift begint met een quote van de 11-jarige Sylvia, die denkt: “ADHD is net als kanker (…) maar je gaat er niet dood aan”. ADHD is zeker geen ziekte als kanker, maar een concept uit de Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), waarvan momenteel de 5e editie uit is. De DSM-5 …

With only one in five secondary-school aged children attending secondary school, a quarter of teenaged girls being pregnant or already having a child (Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2012), and one out of every five people living below the poverty line in Uganda (CIA, 2013) statistics show the ever prevalent …

Introduction: Malnutrition is a persistent problem in Ghana, with high rates of underweight children, stunting and wasting. One of the NGOs that is trying to turn this situation around is Project Share. Through their nutrition centre, they have already rehabilitated over 300 children since 2009. They …