Daily Trust
19 June 2009
Editorial
A recent research conducted by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said that there are an estimated 17.5 million Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in the country.
This represents about 25 percent of the nation's population figure of 140 million citizens. The research which covered 2006 to 2008, also took note of abandoned children, street urchins and children orphaned by the dreaded HIV/AIDS disease, among others.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Uganda: Vision Voice Reaches Out to Orphans in Nakifuma
Godfrey Kimono
21 June 2009
Kampala — When Esther Nassali stayed home for a term after losing her parents to HIV/AIDS in 2006, she thought her dream of getting an education was shattered. The first born in a family of seven is thankful to be back in school.
"I am going to sit for my Primary Leaving Examinations at Nakifuma Voluntary Children Primary School this year," Nassali says. She is among the children whom the Vision Group visited on the day of the African child.
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Global Orphan Relief is now supporting children in Uganda at Salem Children Centre in Naama, Uganda. For more information go to:
www.globalorphanrelief.org/ChildrenofNaama.html or click on:
21 June 2009
Kampala — When Esther Nassali stayed home for a term after losing her parents to HIV/AIDS in 2006, she thought her dream of getting an education was shattered. The first born in a family of seven is thankful to be back in school.
"I am going to sit for my Primary Leaving Examinations at Nakifuma Voluntary Children Primary School this year," Nassali says. She is among the children whom the Vision Group visited on the day of the African child.
Read More.........
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Global Orphan Relief is now supporting children in Uganda at Salem Children Centre in Naama, Uganda. For more information go to:
www.globalorphanrelief.org/ChildrenofNaama.html or click on:
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