Tag Archives: children

By Joan Akello Uganda just like Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda faces challenges in protecting the children from violence, deprivation and poverty. Children and youth are vulnerable in East Africa as a result of conflict and post conflict situations, health, global and local health and other socio- economic situations. The ministry …

By Heikki Holmås Rio+20 – will be a new opportunity to agree on how to achieve growth, welfare, and protect the environment. Parents all over the world want to give their children and grandchildren a secure future.  This must also be the goal for the world’s leaders when we meet …

By Rukiya Makuma Indian heart doctor planning 2,000-bed hospital in Uganda Daliya Muhindo, 12, once suffered heart failure. She was referred to the Uganda Heart Institute in Mulago Hospital by Kagambe hospital. At Mulago it was discovered that she had a hole in the upper chamber of her heart and …

By Rukiya Makuma WFP moves to answer that question with sensitisation and food support Kambasa Salimu is severely malnourished. At five years old, he has a body mass index of a four months old child. Weighing only 8.4 kg and 85 cm in height, he is emaciated with a protruding …