The number of street kid in Uganda increased after a conflict in the North and the East in the past thirty years. This conflict caused many deaths including many parents leaving children with only one parent or orphaned. These conflicts also incited fears in families which pushed them to relocate to larger cities.
Most of the street kids resort to that because of poverty domestic violence, child neglect and peer groups. These children face challenges of poor health care, low Education levels, child marriage and child labour child labour and that is; cleaning, carrying heavy loads, scrap, plastic selling as well as vending.
In twenty 2022 the authorities registered over 15,000 street kids and most of them are between 7 to 14 years live in Kampala streets and at least 100 kid are taken a way from the street every year.
These street kids always run after every car that is parked a long side the streets and every other person walking expecting to get some money and food of which they are not sure whether the food is safe or its poison.
These people do some indiscipline in town including theft in order to get what to eat, drug abuse in oder to calm their minds from thinking big and over come stress, sexual abuse due to idleness and use vulgar language due to the community they stay in.
These people always cause congestion in the city since they always run after every car and their population in cities is increasing. Uganda has four large cities where these street kids have started increasing in big numbers and these cities include Lira, Kampala, Gulu and Mbarara.
This kind of people usually sleep in pipes a long side roads, verandas and some in the bush and therefore the Government should develop a strategic plan for these people because them selves suffer a lot and most of the people in different cities have suffered a lot because of them.
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BY CATHELINE ANKUNDA
