Browsing by Subject "SOS-children-villages"

The study examines factors impacting the resilience process amongst youth growing up in an SOS- Children's village in Madagascar. The study uses the framework of the life-course approach to theorize and link exposures across the life course to possible future pathways and trajectories for the informants. It has involved the investigation of factors across life, geographical location, and social context. The study is an ethnographic study that has applied a mixed method design containing material from participatory observations, and life-narrative interviews. The research results involve factors from three dimensions, that of the informants' individual life, family life, and community life. The overall experience of overcoming hardship and the gratitude openly acknowledged by the informants for being a care-receiver is connected to geographical location and the Malagasy circumstances of being a society in deep poverty. In line with previous research findings, the youth take advantage of being in care to prepare themselves for the future. The ability to acknowledge the positive turn their life took is however strongly connected to the age of admission and is also context-based to be a receiver of SOS-Care. This might somewhat overshadow the youths' self-reliance on their own abilities to successfully transcend through the upcoming life stages. Nevertheless, personal attributes were found to also play a significant role regarding the outlook on the SOS's role in overcoming hardship, which may impact the resilience to transcend beyond SOS care into adulthood. Access to education also helps boost agency and self-reliance for the care receivers. The youth shape their identities in plural contexts which both challenges and supports the process of obtaining resilience. The SOS village has been found to have stable staff patterns which support the youth's development, however, due to the high number of youth placements per caregiver the youth may be at risk of being exposed to structural neglect. Further recommendations for SOS-care providers include the need to support wider cultural socialization for the youth during care. As well as to identify the type of interventions needed and the most appropriate time across the youths' life to intervene. This especially concerns the transition from the SOS village and for it to not only be determined by academic advancements but by when the youth feel ready in other aspects of life.