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Inside the lucrative and secretive business of street children

Inside the lucrative and secretive business of street children

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2024-07-01 06:15:00

“Government to spend Shs3b to get children off streets,” screamed a headline in this newspaper on March 19, 2019, the announcement made by then State Minister for Youth and Children Affairs, Ms Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi.

The money would be spent on multi-sectoral swoop operations involving her Gender ministry, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), police, and local governments to rid Kampala and other major towns of children begging on the streets.

Eight months later on October 23, 2019, she told a media briefing in Kampala that Cabinet had approved Shs5.8b strategic plan of…

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