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Integrating children's savings accounts in the care and support of orphaned adolescents in rural Uganda
- Authors:
- SSEWAMALA Fred M., ISMAYILOVA Leyla
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 83(3), September 2009, pp.453-472.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Under an economic empowerment model of care, 277 AIDS‐orphaned young people (ages 11–17) from 15 comparable schools were randomly assigned to either the usual care (provision of counselling and education‐related supplies), or the experimental condition, in which participants also received matched‐savings accounts. Findings show that poor families in rural Uganda can and do save for their young people if provided with support and incentives. Statistically significant differences between young people in the experimental and control groups on attitudes toward saving, academic performance, educational aspirations and health‐related behaviour were also found. The results suggest that savings‐related interventions have a place in the care and support of the increasing number of orphans in poor sub‐Saharan Africa.