Tag: child rights

Exams play an important role in education, assessing what students have learned with regard to particular subjects. However, working towards exams can put children under significant pressure – impacting their mental health and well-being.

With…

Schools across Europe have broken up for summer and many people have holidays, long weekends and hopefully a few more sunny days to look forward to. Myself, I’ve just booked to go back to…

Susan* is 12 years old and lives in a ghetto area of Jinja. Her father, a fisherman separated from her mother and remarried. Susan was one of 10 children. Her mother left home with…

This is a true story about two children, a boy and a girl, living in a village in Uganda. One day, before heading to the market, their mother put food on the fire and…

There is a difference between a child doing house chores and child labour. However, the moment chores turn into labour often goes unnoticed. 

In Uganda it is traditionally believed… Read more

This is the story of a 14-year-old girl called Faith*.

Faith’s father sent her, her mother and two brothers away and they had to live on the streets,… Read more

This month’s inequality question focused on the dilemma, “If people commit crimes like theft to survive, should they be punished?”

We received 77 responses and they were viewed more than 300 times (so far)!

Today, our…

This month’s inequality discussion was about the question, “How can we make sure that all parents take proper care of their children?”

The discussion had 101 interesting comments and it was viewed more than 300…

It’s close to two years since I started working as a social worker for S.A.L.V.E. International. In this journey, I have seen so many challenges the street children face in their day to day…

When Matthew* came home that day, little did he realize that this was his last day going to school. His father had died of a severe malaria case.  His father’s staying home for days…