Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi
Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi (15 July 1974 – 7 September 2024) was a Ugandan politician and educationist who was the woman representative for Kisoro District, and Minister of State for Gender, Labour and Social Development appointed in 2021 by President Yoweri Museveni in the Ugandan 11th Parliament.
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[edit]- We have been affected by Covid-19 but the issue of street children is something that started long ago, it is not something that started now .This phenomenon started when there was war and that is when children started staying on the streets.
If you can recall right from the 1980s, that is when street children started coming on our streets. Of course this is something that is unacceptable, no one would love to see children on the street or living on the street .
- We had budgeted for Shs 3.4 billion but we got less than that. The money was not released at once .Some money was released and I think it was less than Shs 1 billion to resettle some of the children on the streets.
This money was not specifically for Kampala because the ministry had drawn a plan for different towns like Mbale, Jinja, Masaka so that we can have all these children brought together and taken back to their homes after rehabilitation.
- Covid-19 has also created a very big problem for the parents and at times, they are losing hope but I am encouraging them that they should not lose hope and we believe with time we shall clean up our streets.
