Citation: Handa S, Halpern CT, Pettifor A, Thirumurthy H (2014) The Government of Kenya's Cash Transfer Program Reduces the Risk of Sexual Debut among Young People Age 15-25. PLoS ONE 9(1): e85473. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085473
Editor: Marie-Louise Newell, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Received: July 17, 2013; Accepted: November 22, 2013; Published: January 15, 2014
Social Welfare Programs In Canada
Copyright: © 2014 Handa et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The research was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health through Grant Number 1R01MH093241 and by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development R24 HD050924 to the Carolina Population Center. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Different Social Welfare Programs
More than 500 local and international participants are set to converge in Nairobi Kenya next week for the biggest social protection conference in the region. Social Welfare Programmes. The social welfare programs at Moving Mountains Kenya focus on creating safe, warm, and loving environments for the disadvantaged children and young adults of our communities. Our goal is to reintegrate these children into society by working on child-focused projects as well as infrastructural programmes. Social welfare, assistance for the ill or otherwise disabled and for the old, has long been provided in Japan by both the government and private companies. Beginning in the 1920s, the government enacted a series of welfare programs, based mainly on European models, to provide medical care and financial support. The study has provided information on the effects of social change in terms ofhealth services, transport services and in storied buildings to the welfare of the elderly people in Chuka Division in Kenya. The objectives of the study amongst the elderly within Chuka community were to; i. Overty, disease, and ignorance were identified at the time of independence in 1963 as the critical challenges facing the new nation of Kenya. While an appreciable degree of success has been achieved in the area of education, progress in reducing poverty and providing healthcare has been more modest.