Resilience-Based Interventions to Street Childhood Among Street Children in Zimbabwe

The chapter explores the efficacy of resilience-based intervention strategies that are aimed at tackling street childhood in Zimbabwe. Resilience-based interventions are those interventions that make use of the inherent capacity and agency of the concerned children. While street childhood is a significant challenge in Zimbabwe and Africa, there are little debates on and use of resilience-based interventions for street children. Zimbabwe is devoid of innovative and well-researched interventions to tackle street childhood. In recent years, resilience has been deployed to explain both the aetiology and interventions to street childhood. Indeed, resilience is explained to influence the decision of getting to the streets by the street children as they attempt to handle family adversity at home. In the same vein, interventions that are based on resilience are suggested in the current study. Analysis of secondary data was conducted for the study. The results reveal that the resilience-based interventions may include religious networks, peer support groups, schooling, use of expressive arts, family and parenting clubs for their parents and guardians, contextual psychosocial support and counselling, vocational training, drug rehabilitation and psychosocial support and counselling.