Children living in poverty often are at risk to leave their family to work at the landfill. The main reasons for this are torn family systems, family violence, exclusion, poverty and a lack of intra-familial communication. Children in the district of Buterere who spend their days on the streets or on the landfills of Bujumbura, Burundi to earn a living are particularly vulnerable. The project aims to create a safe environment for these young people and to strengthen their family structures in the long term. For this purpose, we plan to treat traumatized parents psychotherapeutically and to improve their parenting skills within the families in group and family sessions. The financial situation is to be improved in the medium term through agricultural group projects. In addition, participating children and youths will be granted access to school and education, and participate in a skill training group to improve social competencies. In the long term, parents are to set up savings and micro credit groups in order to ensure the education of the children. The project involves 40 families, which are particularly affected by poverty and traumatic experiences. The project is based on scientific findings of the implementing organizations, which carried out similar projects in Burundi in the last years.
Age range
7 Years – 65 Years
Sex
ALL
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In parents: Change of load of traumatic symptoms measured via the PTSD Symptom Scale Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)
Timeframe: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
In parents: Change of number of aggressive acts measured via an adaption of the Domestic and Community Violence
Timeframe: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
In children: Change in experienced parental rejection measured via the short version of the Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire
Timeframe: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
In children: Change of experienced parental maltreatment measured via a shortened version of the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure (MACE)
Timeframe: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up
In children: Change of number of days spent at the landfill
Timeframe: baseline; 5 months follow-up; 9 months follow-up