The Need
Approximately 80 percent of Uganda's 31 million inhabitants are involved in only domestic agricultural activities. Yet, 40 percent of Ugandans still lack access to clean water, food and health services and 37 percent live below the poverty line.
Of the 37 percent living under the poverty line who cannot support their families are single parents and orphans some of whom live with diseases like HIV causing much more emotional suffering. Therefore much need is required to comfort them and brighten their future.
Facts on children
Significant investments in children and women in recent years have led to developmental successes in Uganda, notably in primary education and in the fight against HIV/AIDS. However, in the north, nearly two decades of conflict between the Government and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have spurred a severe humanitarian crisis marked by widespread insecurity and massive displacement. Uganda has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement of children in armed conflict. A Children’s Act, based on the CRC, was passed in 1996.
Issues Facing Children in Uganda
Malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhea are the main causes of under-5 mortality.
Approximately 20,000 babies are infected by HIV annually through mother-to-child transmission.
Nearly half of the estimated 3.5 million orphans are orphaned due to AIDS and expected to rise in years to come.
Net primary school attendance has risen to 87 percent.
Children and women comprise 80 percent of the 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes due to conflict. They live in more than 200 camps, with limited services.
The LRA has abducted more than 25,000 children since 1986.In the conflict-affected districts, around 40,000 unaccompanied children – the ‘night commuters’ – walk every night from their homes in outlying villages to urban centers, in search of protection from the threat of LRA abductions and attacks.
Single Parents.
Unfortunately, even today, there are a lot of assumptions made about single parents in Uganda, Single parenting is never easy, whether you're a single mother or father. The Abato Charitable Foundation is working hand in hand with all single parents who cannot afford for their kids to get a brighter future too.
Abato Charitable Foundation focuses on needs for single parents in various ways .Abato Charitable Foundation Increases Income generation through Modern Agriculture practices, Educates the communities on brick laying, carpentry, catering, tailoring, bread making and other activities. promotes standards of living to communities especially those living with the HIV/AIDS virus. We promote women emancipation through practical skills and agriculture.
