A generational catastrophe

Covid-19 and children’s access to education and food in South Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21540923
AutoresDebra Lynne Shepherd (0000-0003-3609-8583, Stellenbosch University, autor correspondente), Nompumelelo Mohohlwane (0000-0003-0087-5635, Monitoring and Evaluation, Department of Basic Education, Pretoria, South Africa)
Ano2022
Volume39
Fascículo5
Páginas762-780
Data de publicação2022-09-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDevelopment Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0376-835X • E-ISSN: 1470-3637
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0376835x.2021.2017855
OpenAlexW4200160604
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas15

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, children have been put at greater risk of school drop-out, as well as food insecurity and emotional health deterioration. This paper considers these issues as they have occurred in South Africa. We use all waves of the National Income Dynamics Study–Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey to estimate non-return to school, access to school meals, and household well-being. The number of learners not attending school in 2021 is estimated to be close to quadruple pre-pandemic levels. Combined with estimates of learning lost, we can conclude that the pandemic has worn away at two decades of progress made in basic education. Evidence also indicates that school feeding has been slow to recover to pre-pandemic levels. Deepened levels of household hunger combined with a lack of access to free school meals is indicated to contribute to significantly greater levels of caregiver anxiety and psychological distress

Agriculture · Anxiety · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Pandemic · Poverty · Socioeconomics · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Psychology