Why child rights continue to be violated
Jun 16, 2014
The focus of this year’s Day of the African Child Celebrations, is; education as one of the indivisible rights that every child is entitled to.
By Vivian Agaba
The focus of this year’s Day of the African Child Celebrations, is; education as one of the indivisible rights that every child is entitled to. Nevertheless, as Uganda joins the rest of Africa to commemorate day of the African Child under the theme “A child friendly, quality, free and compulsory education for all children in Uganda”, a Makerere University study has revealed that only 37% of pupils manage to sit for their Primary Leaving Examinations
Causes of absenteeism, school dropout
By Elvis Basudde
Different institutions and schools are educating children. But what is the quality of that education and how friendly are the teachers? How do the teachers handle children? Why do some children run away from school? What causes absenteeism and school dropout? During a children’s consultative meeting held recently by African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse Neglect (ANPPCAN), Alice Andunga, a primary six pupil in Kamundwe Primary School in Arua district says she walks nine kilometers to school daily.
Releasing children from poverty’s claws
By Gilbert Kidimu
They say a child’s wellbeing is only as good as its mothers’. A family under extreme poverty will not only subject the adults to sleepless nights, it will subject the child to hungry nights. From the mother who goes nine months without antenatal care to poor state of Universal Primary Education to getting married off at 14; there is no denying that poverty is the African child’s worst enemy.
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