Kenya Longoli, one of the parents, talks of seven children from his village who were rounded up in the streets of Kampala but they do not know the organization that carried out the operations and where the children were taken.
But Mary Agan Apuun, the District Community Development Officer for Napak says it is hard to believe that the parents do not know where their children are because they are the ones who facilitate them to travel to Kampala.
Richard Nelson, the USAID Uganda Mission Director told officials from the government, the NGO sector, and donors that one of the areas where corruption accrues is in procurement and that up to 1.2 trillion dollars is lost in economic and governance loss each year in developing countries due to corruption.
On October 1, 2021, President Yoweri Museveni while officiating at the International Day of Older Persons, directed that 10 billion Shillings be earmarked to support older persons that are not benefiting from the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment-SAGE and pension scheme.
Bbumba says that the school is challenged to offer desired attention to the learners because only one teacher is posted to handle them from primary one to primary seven.
Micheal Lokut, an elder in Lopukoi village Matany Town council Napak, says that although the program has improved his life, the high prices of food are costing him a lot of money, and yet there are other essential commodities needed in the family.
Speaking at the launch and dissemination workshop of the second National Strategy to end Child Marriages and Teenage Pregnancies (NSCMTP) in Entebbe, Vedasto Nsanzungwanko, the Chief of the section of Child Protection, said that at a national level, 34% of the marriages had females who were married off before clocking eighteen
George William Omuge, the Chairperson of the Kumam General Assembly, the body steering the election process and installation of Won Ateker Papa Kumam says that there was delay in the submission of resolutions from some sub counties in Amolatar and Dokolo districts which make part of the Kumam Cultural Heritage.
On Thursday, the event was given green light when the Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka said that there was no legal impediment to the coronation of Emolot as Emorimor Papa Iteso.
According to the elderly, the current set-up seems to be designated for a relatively young population with little clinical focus on problems that matter to older people such as chronic pain, and management of ongoing difficulties with hearing, seeing, walking or performing daily activities.
In 2021, at least 400 million shillings were set aside for the completion of dormitories that were at the roofing level but since then, the project has been stagnant for more than six months despite being behind the schedule.
Health Minister in charge of General Duties, Anifa Kawooya told Uganda Radio Network (URN) in an interview that they have realized that people visiting hospitals also have other underlying problems which many times affect their compliance to treatment.
Donnas Ojok- Okello, an Economics graduate, and development expert is the brain behind the Okere City Initiative, which he started in Okere Mom- Kok “a baby should not cry” his ancestral home village.
Patience Namanya, the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Coordinator at Ministry of Gender says they are planning to cater for young people aged 10 to 24years and that in addition to involving community leaders, they want to integrate sexuality education in already existing programmes such as the youth livelihood programme that is currently attracting numbers of rural youth. Among the key areas of study for older children is equipping them with parenting skills.
The closure of schools which has lasted close to two years has sent many would-be learners into employment, scores of them working in paid and unpaid forms of work in the mines in Moroto, Kaabong and Nakapiripirit districts. Area leaders fear that many of these children might never return to school, even after the reopening in January.
Mondo Kyateeka, the Commissioner of Youth and Children’s Affairs says that girls need to start reporting cases of cyber harassment through the line noting that all through the lockdown which involved school closures, they were receiving other cases such as sexual assault, incest and torture.
Fred Ngabirano, the Commissioner of Youth and Children’s Affairs in the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development and Focal Point Person for the Moroto Juvenile Remand says the ministry will first complete and operationalize Moroto Remand Home ahead of other regional homes in Masindi and Gulu.
Prof. Paul Bakuluki of Makerere University’s Department of Social Work and Social Administration who was one of the investigators said men had started unpaid care work such as preparing food, fetching water and cleaning whereas their female counterparts are embracing non-traditional roles such as paying for food and meeting costs of health care.
Records from the Community Development Office show that 24 beneficiaries died before they received the money in the first phase of the program in June 2020.
