There are several factors that have contributed greatly to the biggest number of street children in Uganda; the civil war, HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. Uganda had a civil war that took 23 years and the most affected regions were the northern and eastern parts. Because of this war, many people have been forced to leave their homes join camps and streets.

The Second factor that has largely contributed to the number of street children is HIV/AIDS. In Uganda every family has ever lost someone suffering from AIDS, so many children have been left parentless. Because if this epidemic many children have been forced to leave homes and join street life to look for help.

When they come to the streets they meet so many more problems, looking for shelters, food, clothes and medicine. Because no body cares for them, most of them sleep on the verandas, without covering their bodies, when you look at their bodies; many of them have wounds, jiggers, broken bones and deformed parts of the body since they don’t have any body to look after them. When they get sick of different diseases, they have no medicine to take and eventually they die.

The third factor that has contributed largely to the big number of street children is domestic violence. There is a lot of misunderstands in many families that have caused so many marriages to break. Once the marriage is broken, children face a very hard time because no body will cater for them, they are forced to leave their homes and join street life to survive since the family has been broken up. They sleep on verandas without any blanket.      

In the morning when they wake up they move around the city places all over city to beg money for survivor.

When it comes to evening, they have to go back to the street verandas because this is were they have to sleep the whole night covering themselves with nothing but newspapers.

During rainy season, this is when the children face the hardest time, dirty running water and rubbish from valleys normally pass along the verandas and the sleeping children are affected so much with dirty water and rubbish. Mosquitoes keep biting them and when they suffer from Malaria they have no drugs to treat them.

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