Hope for infant Mothers

Schools in Uganda were fully or partially shattered for 83 weeks (2years ) longer than anywhere else in the world. Statistics show that a total number of 15 million students didn’t access education in Uganda during that period.

It has been revealed that during the pandemic many school going aged boys entered the child labour market to work in sand mining, Brick laying, street vending , sugar cane planting, growing and harvesting. Many Parents became reluctant to their children which created a vacuum for early sex, drug abuse and theft.

Up to 30% of the students are expected not to return to their school desks  because they are mothers and fathers. By random sampling, up to one in five children in fragile districts, including Buyende dropped out of school due to rising poverty, child marriage and labour which has been exhibited by the pandemic. This Survey has also helped to reveal that a 22.5% is the jump in pregnancies among girls aged 10-24 years .

According to UNFPA 2021 Report Kamuli registered  the highest number of early  pregnancies  in the region with 60535,mayuge 60205, others included luuka,Buyende and Kaliro

Infant mothers in Busoga continue to suffer from abrupt poverty as they have failed to have self-support for their pregnancies or new borns. According to them most of the men who impregnated them went on hide as they feared to take care or face the long arm of the law. Nanyanzi sherifer is a mother of 8months child but is again having a pregnancy of two months, she says she could not continue with family planning and efforts to abort was futile

Such worrying situation in Busoga has prompted the intervention of  Busoga Kingdom to extend support to the infant mothers strating with the districts of Buyende and Kamuli. The program is being extended through Developing Lives,livelihood,and Nutrition Uganda  DLLN  Uganda. The program looks to ensure that infant mothers deliver healithly and willing ones and go back to