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EDUCATION OF CHILD SPONSORSHIP AND IMPACTS ON RECEIVING AND DONOR PARTY
EDUCATION OF CHILD SPONSORSHIP AND IMPACTS ON RECEIVING AND DONOR PARTY

Author(s): Zbyšek Korecki, Michaela Katolická
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Academiei Forțelor Aeriene „Henri Coandă”
Keywords: education; poverty; child sponsorship; health care; Uganda; Bwindi Orphans

Summary/Abstract: The article will elaborate child sponsorship and how the organizations are affecting children in developing countries and also the donors, also known as “adoptive parents” in the Czech Republic who are helping children - Bwindi Orphans and Adopce na dálku®. They are both working in Uganda and their work is very appreciating. The aim of the article is therefore to grasp the anthropological perspective programs through distance adoption of two groups of participants involved - themselves "adoptive parents" and implementers of the program. The partial aim of the research is through semi-structured interviews to map the motives of participants for participation in the program based on their socio-cultural back-grounds. Based on the themes will be searched reason that people choose this way to "learn" and financially support unknown children living many hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, or that they do this kind of development co-worker involved in the position of intermediary organizations. Secondary is to convey insight into the meanings that respondents attach to programs and explain to them by their involvement in the program expect. Specifically, the intention will determine how "adoptive parents" perceive sponsorship of children, and the answer to the question whether their participation in an expression of solidarity and effort to help, or whether this is perceived only as financial help to someone who needs it, or their actions attributed to others (hidden) meanings. The ultimate aim of the research is to explore ideas sponsors and implementers of the world in which children live sup-ported, because it can be given to the position of both groups involved in the program assume that their ideas are in some way different.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 79-82
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English