The Parliamentary Committee on Youth, Sports and Child Matters has stressed the need for strengthened family bonds to help address the increase in the number of children living on the streets.
Committee Acting Chairperson, Dr Alex Katakwe said the Street kids are a scourge that is negatively affecting the country hence the need for urgent interventions.
Dr Katakwe attributed the increase in street kids to poverty and weak family bonds, stating that if not addressed, the country will lose its vibrant youths due to illicit activities young people are engaging in on the streets.
“It is sad that when a parent fails to provide for the family children are forced to live on the streets with the hope of survival,” he noted.
Dr Katakwe said this when the Committee paid a courtesy call on North-Western Province Minister Robert Lihefu. He revealed that a total number of 210 children were removed from the streets of North-Western last year.Dr Katakwe charged that the government alone cannot remove children from the streets and has since called on stakeholders to join in the fight.
And the Vice President has been heard to encourage women to have more children promising them that the government will be providing grant for them is that normal with so many children suffering in the country i always pray to God to give us leaders with the heart like Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso because the present ones are not thinking properly.
Humans should start using condoms again since they’re addicted to being irresponsible over their own offsprings.
Expressing “concern” means nothing. While you pay yourselves hefty allowances and buy expensive cars for clowning in parliament and passing unjust laws, using the thin resources of the nation, the rest of us starve. The poor are becoming poorer.
But you don’t really care its all just politics to you. If you cared, you wouldn’t sit back while souch mineral wealth is being taken out of the country with no benefit to the people. This is mere virtual signaling.
Unfortunately, a good number of street kids come from homes where mothers have become addicted to alcohol. This appears to be more than an economic problem.