The minister for Youth and children Affairs Ronald Kibule has pledged to remove street children from streets in most towns in the country.

He made the remarks while meeting former street and refugee children at city Royal Hotel in Bugolobi as Uganda prepares to join rest of the world to commemorate the Day of the African child which is for Thursday this week under the theme :All together for Action in favor of street children.

Minister Ronald Kibuule

Kibule said that children will be off the streets and taken to schools under the UPE programme and vocational schools.

He however, warned the Children NGOs against facilitating children to be on the streets with the purpose of benefiting from them by getting donor support.

According to the Reports from ANPCAN over 10,000 children live on streets of Kampala and other major towns in the country and 89% of them are boys and 11% are girls.

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