Category: Uganda
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A. has been a victim of child labor from 2013 to 2015. He is now a student medical laboratory technology
A. was a one-month-old baby when his parents divorced in 2001. His mother went back to live with his maternal grandmother. Two months later, his mother married another man, she abandoned A. to his grandmother. She took care of him until he joined primary school at the age of 5. People in the community didn’t…
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Mothers defending children rights
Introduction The two stories here describe mothers who have taken active roles in anti-child-labour project work in their communities supported by the Ugandan NGO CEFORD (1). The first story is written by Okaya John Bosco, Team leader of Community Empowerment for Rural Development (CEFORD) and the second story is compiled by Masika Jennipher (CLLO). “Mama…
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Parents also gain when child labour ends
Parents have gained as adults from the campaign to stop child labour, and their children have thrived as a result. In these two stories, each parent changed their minds about education during implementation of the Stop Child Labour project in Erussi subcounty, Nebbi district, northwest Uganda, by the Uganda National Teachers’ Union (UNATU) and the…
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Children’s and young people’s stories
These five stories concern four children and one young adult in Uganda who were out of school, and in most cases forced into child labour. For each one, anti-child-labour interventions and campaigns involving NGOs, teachers’ unions and the local community helped them chart a new course in life. These stories offer inspiration for children and…
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Ending child labour in Busia district
How to end child labour globally is a constant discussion without always having precise answers. But at a local level in the eastern border district of Busia, Uganda (an area of small-scale, artisanal and informal gold mines), the NGO Environmental Women in Action for Development (EWAD) has simplified the question of ending child labour, based…
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Parents Embracing Inclusive Education.
Oyirwoth James is a 9-year-old primary one pupil of Kaya primary school in Paidha sub-county Zombo district. Together with his parents, he lives in Theyau village in Kaya parish. He said that his parents (both mother and father) are drunkards who fight every time over simple things due to some misunderstandings. Above all, they would…