Tag: children on the street

I have recently started my job at S.A.L.V.E. as the Project Officer and spent the first month of my new job in Uganda! It’s not every day that you get to start your new…

One of the children we support in our Drug Rehabilitation Programme called James* is 17 years old and started using drugs when he was 11 years old. After the death of his father,…

This month’s debate was ‘What could your community do differently to make sure everyone understands children’s rights?’. It was…

“Children on the street should be treated the same as those at home”– Nangobi, 16 from Uganda

Today is the International Day for Street Children! Since 2012, April 12thhas been a day children,…

He/she who has the spirit of supporting people in need or in harder situations than others, focuses a lot their minds on uplifting other people’s lives to a certain level they deserve to live…

This month’s inequality question chosen by the children in Uganda was ‘Is equality for women and girls possible?’

The debate received 69 responses and was viewed by 528…

Godfrey* is 11 years old, he comes from a small village and has just finished primary year three. When he was younger, Godfrey lived with both his mother and father. Then his parents divorced,…

Harriet* is 9 years old.  She used to stay with her parents in the village. Sadly, her father died when she was little. Harriet’s mother wasn’t seeing any future in the village since the…

This month’s inequality question was ‘Should love be conditional on how you behave’.

By the end of the live debate the debate had received 70 responses and was viewed 583 times! People chose to answer…