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negatively to their competence to set organisational mechanism that reflect other organized institutions. Social exclusion and/organisational theories were relevant in the study of shelters for children living and/or working on the streets. 1.9 Chapter layout Chapter One: Introduction. Discuss the bases of the study. The phenomenon of children living and/or working on the streets according to Swart (1990: 126), challenges the core fabric of society, facing it with a moral dilemma, and consequently the consciousness of society is called to respond. The study focuses on shelters for children living and/or working on the streets, the interaction and experiences of the staff as service providers and children as the recipients of shelter intervention and reintegration programs within the shelters' organizational environment. Chapter Two: Review of related literature and definitions. The chapter reviews literature relating to shelters for children living and/or working on the streets and explores the inter-connectedness and linkage of the factors, which trigger the phenomenon of children living and/or working on the streets. The factors arise from extemal forces beyond national boundaries and how macro-, micro and mezzo extemal factors consequently impact on the phenomenon of children living and/or working on the streets, which challenges society to respond by way of shelter's service delivery and intervention programs. The chapter also discusses and defines the concepts significant to the study. Defining concepts is within the discipline tradition of social science inquiry. Chapter Three: Methodology and research methods. The chapter discuses the methodological paradigm and how the study is located within the debate between quantitative and qualitative approaches in research. It outlines in detail the methods that the study applied in soliciting information and discusses the sample and sampling methods, how data was recorded, stored and analysed. Also included here is research ethics and the limitations of the study and ends with a conclusion. 13
Chapter Four: Data analysis. The chapter analyses the findings. The presentation of the findings is in tables and descriptive analyses. Chapter Five: Discussion and interpretation of the findings. Discussion on research findings and the interpretation of the data is presented here and the chapter ends with a conclusion. Chapter Six: Conclusions and a way forward. This chapter wraps up the study and charts a way forward, and makes recommendations derived from the study. Mapping a way forward is significant because the study focused on shelters for children living and/or working on the streets, hypothesized that the interface between shelter organization, staff as service providers and the children either promotes the development capacity of the children or recycles the marginal status of the children in society. Consequently shelters as human service providers need recognition by the government through registration and the support of society. 1.10 Summary The phenomenon of children living and/or working on the streets is triggered by many complex and interlinked factors; the emergence of HIV/AIDS has compounded the situation. Government and society together with NGOs have responded to the challenge of children living and/or working on the streets with a view to easing the children's plight and as a commitment to conventions of children's rights. The intervention and reintegration of children into mainstream society is an endeavour that needs the efforts and commitment of every member of any society. The interface between the children and the shelters is hinged on two perspectives, namely the low status of children living and/or working on the streets which leads to their exclusion from all aspects of society and this motivates the shelters' response, and the organization of the shelters. 14
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Page 4 and 5: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I extend my sincer
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living and/or working on the street
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4.3.1 Structure and physical locati
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Apart from management of shelters,
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Regarding transparency, accountabil
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Staff expressed that children shoul
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was immediately reassuring to child
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will to choose whether to or not li
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Sangoma (traditional doctor) and I
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Look at this shelter look at the do
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preferable. Participants continued
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It is okay when one is going with a
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5.1 Introduction CHAPTER FIVE DISCU
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The challenges of children living a
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differed greatly from the feelings
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een on the streets for a very long
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from the overseas. Some of the loca
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programs to communities and familie
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explained, was their priority. It i
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streets, consequently, shelters int
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perspectives, understanding, and ca
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understand such discourses. Through
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6.1.3 Conclusions Regarding Researc
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and appreciation that the children
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Shelters could endeavour to reinfor
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The effort is to move the children
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macroeconomic factors, the local mi
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REFERENCES Acker, A. (1986). Childr
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Brown, D. C. (1996). 'Why ask why:
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Gronbjen, K. A. (1992). Nonprofit H
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Mills C. W. (1971). The Sociologica
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Swart, J. (1987). 'Street Children:
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Street children in http://allafrica
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3.1.5. Does the shelter have any re
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4. Social and Recreation 4.1. How a
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Follow-up questions What are the sh
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APPENDIX 3 FOCUS GROUPS CHILDREN Pl
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6. Shelter routine and Discipline:
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