Do you know this? 30% of children do not have access to safe water. 60% of children live more than a 30 minutes trip from the nearest water source. Only 4 in every 50 households have a hand washing facility with soap and water. 8% of mothers of under 5 year old children have soap and water readily available for hand washing. AND my personal favorite; 3 out of 10 households don’t have a latrine. As 30 people out of 100 have nowhere to deposit their waste products, as 300 people out of 1000, 3000 of 10,000, 30,000 of 100,000. Do you see my drift? As in you can meet…
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My Rant Towards Children's Rights
A few weeks ago I attended the launch of the Situation Analysis of Children in Uganda report at Golf course hotel organized by UNICEF Uganda, and I got to understand that many children in this country(The pearl of Africa) have never realized some of their rights. And some of us might have missed out on ours. Do you know how rate on the Global High maternal and child morality rates? We are among the 10 worst countries that a big magnitude of newborns deaths. These children have rights like the one of survival, it’s their God given right not to die as babies. We as adults are failing these blessings. Not…
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Parenting is for Parents and Teaching is for Teachers
Its your responsibility as a parent to guide your child in the right ways of life not the teacher. The teacher is there to teach not parent, that is your duty and right as a parent from the time you started talking about bearing children. Stop dumping your responsibilities to people. It is very common now days for parents to leave their God given responsibility of parenting to strangers who they pay to teach or take care of their children and hope the parenting duty will come in as a bonus . When I was growing up, I always discussed what I learnt from school with my parents who impacted more…
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Invest in Children, Invest in the Future
I had an introductory to this topic but let me say this instead, if my elders (great great grand parents and their friends plus relatives) had invested more in their children (my grand parents and my parents plus their friends), I am sure I wouldn’t be here hustling with life. Why do I say the above? My reasons are related to the #InvestInUgChildren hash tag on twitter that was developed after a report was released regarding the need to invest in Children as businesses. The report said there was a need for business to Consult children, consider children’s rights and add children related principles in their policies. So after reading through the…
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#RichParentsStupidKids
We need to think about our children, balance the equation and make it developmental.
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Smoking around others? Thank you for Killing us!!!
‘This is very unbelievable, how can a mother be smoking near her children?’ thought Kahill as she walked passed her neighbour’s compound. She shaked her head and walked by, tradition dedicates never to interfere in other people’s business. But Kahill was not the kind to keep quiet, she had been nursing a sick nephew suffering from cancer and everytime she saw him suffering she thought of all the people who just smoke for themselves without any consideration of other people around them. With that pain and the young children not older than 7 and 10 years playing around their mother, who was busy enjoying her cigarettes made her heart hurt.…
