Using social justice as the conceptual foundation, the authors present the structural barriers to socially just intercountry adoptions (ICAs) that can exploit and oppress vulnerable children and families participating in ICAs. They argue that such practices threaten the integrity of social work practice in that arena and the survival of ICA as a placement option. Government structures, disparit...

THE ORIGINS OF EARLY INTERVENTION RESEARCH FOR ‘‘AT RISK’’ INFANTS AND CHILDREN In 1801, a French surgeon, Itard, began an educational intervention with an 11 year old boy that has since become classic [Itard, 1932]. From his work with the child he found running naked and wild in a forest (‘‘the savage of Aveyron’’) emerged hope, as well as understanding, about the role of early experience and ...

Literature on orphanage tourism considers the motives of Western volunteers and problematic nature their compulsion to ‘help’ vulnerable children in Global South. Orphanage is also increasingly adopted into ‘rescue ideologies’ (Howard, 2016) anti-trafficking/‘modern slavery’ campaigns. The perspectives involved, however, are missing from these discourses. This article draws original empirical d...

Poverty is considered as the curse of any development. The aim study to describe contribution individual Zakat and Sadaqah payer in dealing with sustainable development Bangladesh. data also showed that deal impact various forms, by providing scholarships, bearing educational expenses, managing job, creating small entrepreneur, counselling distributing basic necessities, helping orphanages thro...

Recent decade, the podcast has become one of new media platforms that have a trend in society. Podcasts are becoming increasingly popular, especially during Covid-19 pandemic. At time when people forced to social distancing, some want build their creativity easily and cheaply, efficiently on various platforms. mostly only known among urban communities, while fostered children such as those orph...

In a typical orphanage, records are usually kept for future reference, retrieval, reproduction, and easy management. The daily activities, schedules events also recorded. For instance, if there is need to know the population of orphanage/ children home, one may count obtained from different files that contain papers with information. main objective this project was design develop new system man...