Namayingo children ditch school, crowd gold mines
Ronald Sanya, the Namayingo district chairman, said the I-don’t-care attitude towards education by some parents involved in gold mining has worsened the situation.
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Children wash ore at Nsango gold mine in Namayingo district. Most have failed to return to school. Photo by George Bita
By NewVision Reporter
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Although schools reopened countrywide on January 10, after a lengthy COVID-19-related closure, learners’ attendance during the first week was low in Namayingo district.
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