set up to fail inadequate educational support for orphans in central kenya设置失败教育不足支持孤儿在肯尼亚中部.pdf

Advances in Anthropology 2011. Vol.1, No.1, 1-8 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/aa.2011.11001 Set up to Fail: Inadequate Educational Support for Orphans in Central Kenya Ginger A. Johnson Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. Email: johnson.ginger@ th th rd Received July 19 , 2011; revised August 15 , 2011;accepted August 23 , 2011 In response to Kenya’s goal of free and universal primary education for every child by 2015, this paper describes a few of the obstacles that one of the most visible periphery populations in Kenya, orphaned children, face in at- tempting to reach this objective. The most frequently cited barriers of children and their caretakers to consistent school attendance included: inability to pay school fees, lack of a school uniform, difficulty in providing assis- tance to orphaned children, presence of disease/illness in the family and disruption of education due to political violence. Conducted in a Kikuyu community in the Kinangop District of Central Kenya following the 2007/2008 presidential election riots, this study utilized multiple regression, logistic regression and MANOVA statistical tests to determine if families caring for orphaned children of primary school age differed significantl