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Displaced Children And Orphans Fund And War Victims Fund Activities In Sri Lanka, Usaid-Leahy Feb 1999

Displaced Children And Orphans Fund And War Victims Fund Activities In Sri Lanka, Usaid-Leahy

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The Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF),which is administered by the Office of Health and Nutrition of the Bureau for Global Programs, Field Support and Research, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is a special fund within the agency that provides assistance for special groups of vulnerable children. It operates under its own strategic objective which is “the protection, well-being and development of war-affected children, unaccompanied minors and orphans.” The Leahy War Victims Fund (LWVF), initiated in 1988 by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, operates similarly to the DCOF. Its stated objective is “The functional reintegration of war victims into civil …