About 61 million children of primary school age were out of school in the world.
More than half of them (33 million) were in sub-Saharan Africa and a further one fifth (13 million) in Southern Asia.\
More than half of them (33 million) were in sub-Saharan Africa and a further one fifth (13 million) in Southern Asia.\
[Graphic via Women Deliver]
adapted from
https://plus.google.com/+onedayswages/posts http://www.onedayswages.org/
The Uganda context:
The population is very young with
51.6% below the age of 15 years and 56.1% below 18 years[1].
19% of children (2.3 million) are orphans[2]
and 1.1million households have at least one orphan. This presents a high age
dependency ratio.
About three in ten girls and boys aged 6-9 years have
never attended school despite Uganda’s push towards MDG number 2, “Universal
Primary Education”;[3]
About
80% of the cases of child abuse reported by media and annual crime report from
the Uganda Police are of sexual assault by nature i.e. mostly defilement;
1.76
million Children are engaged in child labour with majority being the orphans
and school drop-out;
Early marriages, early unwanted pregnancies; unsafe
abortions, STDs, HIV/AIDS and low contraceptive use are common with the youth;
The
rate of contracting AIDS is six times higher among Girls (15-19 years) than their
male counterparts.
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