Social conflicts, Poverty, HIV and AIDS, and many other issues affecting Uganda have left in its trail high mortality rates among children, and those from vulnerable families that survive face a bleak future.
In communities ravaged by the HIV/Aids pandemic most children are orphaned with no one to turn to, so are many others born into families in abject poverty without the means and hope to provide for the children.
In such conditions: children go hungry and malnourished; Education is a luxury, parents, and guardians can’t afford to take children to school, so kids drop out of school forced into the streets or work to share the burden of supporting the family.
Children born into such a life struggle to break free. They circle back to make the same mistakes their parents made, soon they are bringing forth children of their own into the same desperate conditions. And the cycle continues.