In Uganda, there is no national coverage of community mental healthcare. A network of 28 out-patient facilities can provide follow-up care, but they are thinly spread and often starved of funds for even essential medication. The majority of national mental health funding is invested in...
Each year, on March the eighteenth, in Uganda and across the globe, thousands of people stream the streets to celebrate women’s achievement and raise awareness against bias. The International Women’s Day, usually referred to in Europe as the ‘Women’s day of struggle’ was first...
I have never seen blind children so I take interest and ask the lady why these children don’t see, why they are in a line, why they are following each other and what I can do to help them? She looks at me and asks me to give them merely sweets.
I am a mother of two beautiful daughters and I live in Ggaba and I’m the founder of Support Disabled Children Ggaba. I partnered with Creative Youth Agency about a year ago. They offered support in terms of healthcare, bringing donors for example from Sweden and Uganda, foodstuffs...
I am Atenge Christine, the mother of a four-year old Nayiga Daniella Benita (24 years), my daughter is disabled. She is blind, deaf, and cannot talk or sit. She cannot feed on her own and gets convulsions at least once every week. Her father had abandoned us as soon he heard I was pregnant.
It is exactly one hundred and eight days ever since Uganda recorded her first Covid- 19 case. It was a sombre midnight when the government, through Dr. Ruth Aceng announced that the country had recorded her first case. Three months since then and the youths who are substantially vulnerable...
There’s growing concern about the survival of fish in areas that have been polluted. Gastrointestinal tracts of locally fished Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) have been examined for plastics and Plastics have been confirmed in 20% of fish from each species...