Publication: Household Food Security Support Initiatives on the Social Well-being of Single Orphans
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2019-09-30
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Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies (JHSSS)
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of household food security
support initiatives on the social well-being of single orphans in Rangwe Sub-
County. The study employed a sequential explanatory mixed research design
using qualitative and quantitative data. The target population was single orphan
households and members of community-based organizations dealing with
orphans. Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire from single
orphan parents, focus group discussions with community-based organization
members, and an observation guide tool. A snow ball sampling method was
used to collect data from 308 households using the semi-structured
questionnaire. Questionnaire data were analyzed using descriptive statistics
(mean, mode, standard deviations) and results are summarized using
percentages, graphs, pie charts, and frequency distribution tables. Qualitative
data from focus group discussions were transcribed and thematically analyzed.
Qualitative data from observations were thematically analyzed. The study found
out that household food security initiatives were not adequate in terms of their
availability, sufficiency and utilization and affected the social-wellbeing of the
single orphans in a number of ways; missing school, falling ill more often, not
having a sense of belonging, not playing with others and getting worried. The
study’s findings indicate that additional food support initiatives targeting single
orphans are inadequate. Government policymakers and non-government
organizations should prioritize strategies to support households in food
generating activities such as farming alongside education of farmers to improve
yields, ensure that households have information about different food support
initiatives and how to access them, and leverage additional donor funds to
support the community-based organization activities that have existing
infrastructure and networks to target single orphan households for food support.
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Food, Single orphan, Food security, Household, Social well-being