Orphanhood and Child Vulnerability: Malawi

Impact of orphanhood on schooling and child labour in Malawi

By: Guarcello L, Lyon S & Rosati F
Produced by: Understanding Children's Work (UWC) & Innocenti Research Centre, 2004

This Country Brief explores the links between orphanhood, fostering and child vulnerability. The paper concludes that orphanhood increases child vulnerability in two ways: it makes it much more likely that a child is denied schooling and much more likely that a child is exposed to the dangers of work.