The Street Child Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which began its life five years ago as college students meeting street children in Uganda and doing art projects with them, works to provide ...

Recent studies show that at least 10 children in Uganda join street life every day in the country’s major towns. ... 372 children join the street, putting a total to 18,600 children in 20 years.

Built as a rehabilitation centre for young offenders, it is now home to almost 900 people, nearly all of them children. There is not enough room for everyone in the dormitories, so some sleep in the ...

Lawmakers in Uganda have passed a bill making it a criminal offence to offer money, food or a donation to a street child. Violators of this new law could face up to six months in jail or a fine of ...

For the last five years, Kate (now 15 years old) has been a street child in Kampala, hustling to make ends meet. Uganda: Street Children - We Are Raped - allAfrica.com AllAfrica ...

Violent and arbitrary roundups of street children by police in Kampala are not new. In 2014, Human Rights Watch found that police and other officials beat, extorted money from, and arbitrarily ...

Here they are not children of the street. They are talented musicians and dancers, responsible students, motivated leaders, and members of a growing family. Dec 14, 2010 ...

Northern Uganda has a long history of minors being separated from their parents. The Lord's Resistance Army insurgent group kidnapped tens of thousands of children over two decades until the mid ...

It's Thursday and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday we hear about an individual who's decided to work to make the world a better place. The Child Restoration Outreach project ...

Experts say Uganda has at least 8000 street children. A renowned Ugandan child welfare activist, Jolly Nyeko, told The New Vision that Kampala has about 4000, Mbale about 800 and Jinja about 500 ...