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Cleaners, the unsung heroes at the COVID-19 frontline

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Everywhere in the world, people have repeatedly been told to frequently wash hands with soap and running water as well as sanitize and clean surfaces around them to avoid catching COVID-19, among other infections. In homes, cleaning surfaces has become a routine. In health facilities, the situation is not any different. Cleaning and disinfecting…

UNICEF helps to keep health workers safe during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Heroic, brave and working round the clock to provide essential health care services during the COVID-19 pandemic, health workers need to be protected so that they are safe while on duty. In Uganda, as community transmission of COVID-19 and related deaths continue to rise, health facilities are taking additional precautionary measures to protect…

Providing water in schools boosts learning and attendance, especially for girls

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Loodoi Primary School, located in Napak District, Karamoja sub-region, lies along a rocky belt that doesn’t allow sinking of boreholes, making it difficult for the school to get enough water. Despite numerous attempts by district authorities and partners, drilling boreholes was futile. The school operated with insufficient water for years,…

Esther Lomma, the adolescent WASH ambassador from Karamoja helping communities change for the better

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Loodoi Primary School boosts of a very vibrant and effective water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) club. The club has clear roles and responsibilities since it was established with support from Cooperation and Development, UNICEF implementing partner for the WASH in schools programme in Karamoja schools, and financial support from the Korean…

Games children play during COVID-19 in Kikuube District

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As children wait for the government to open schools, they continue to engage in various activities at home including learning, helping with domestic chores, and above all, playing their favourite games. At a time when children are anxious about the future, and many are stuck at home for their safety, play is important. Children can play indoor or…

Celebrating communities free of defecation in the Karamoja sub-region

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Six months ago, the smell of faeces in Nakanikam village in Matany sub-county was overpowering. The whole village was littered with faeces as flies swarmed around the area. There was no safe place to just sit for a while. To the community members, this was normal behaviour, and no one cared about the situation, not even the leaders. None of the…

Kitgum using community systems to challenge harmful social norms and violent practices against women

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“The success of different interventions stems from understanding that violent attitudes, behaviours, norms and practices are shaped at individual, community and societal levels and must therefore be challenged in a mutually reinforcing way,” said Allen Kuteesa, a UNICEF Consultant attached to Danish firm NTU while training Kitgum district staff on…

Kitgum leaders fear schools may not have female students after lockdown due to teenage pregnancies

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District leaders in Kitgum are worried that by the time schools are allowed to resume in the area, more than half of the female students in the district will either be married off or will be pregnant. According to June statistics that the district Community Development Office presented in a meeting with UNICEF, 1,519 girls below 19 years visited a…

Kitgum targets clean record in violence against women and children with new social welfare model

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According to the 2014 Population Census, Kitgum and Kasese districts were some of the worst places in Uganda in which to be a woman. Data from the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UBOS) revealed that the two districts record the highest levels of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Uganda. Kitgum had the highest prevalence at 60 per cent…

Before it rains

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Any visit to Bududa will most certainly revolve around three words ‘Before it rains’. Over a one-week visit, we had to go to the field, ‘before it rains’, we had to return to town ‘before it rains’, we had to hurry downhill, ‘before it rains’. In Bududa, light rains over long periods precipitate landslides; a December 2019 landslide occurred after…

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