Poverty in Uganda is an important issue as an appreciable number of people in Uganda, specifically rural people are below the poverty line. About 60% of the Ugandan people are poor and 30% are very poor. Women in Uganda are the poorest of the poor. The standard of living in Uganda is much lower than the rest of the world. Uganda also have low life expectancy literacy rates.
Poverty in Uganda
Some of the major factors behind the poverty in Uganda are low income and low purchasing power of the people. Political and ideological factors should also be considered behind the emergence of poverty in Uganda. The attributes of poverty can be assorted on the basis of geography, urban or rural groups, vulnerable groups and minorities.
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Poverty in Uganda
Some of the major factors behind the poverty in Uganda are low income and low purchasing power of the people. Political and ideological factors should also be considered behind the emergence of poverty in Uganda. The attributes of poverty can be assorted on the basis of geography, urban or rural groups, vulnerable groups and minorities.
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Atuhaire Mary lives with her family in Mitooma village with no proper housing, in the Bushenyi district. She lives in total poverty after she was abandoned by her husband. Mitooma, Uganda. 17/12/2010
http://www.demotix.com/news/567895/poverty-uganda
Tumwesigye Raphael playing out side his home with his sister. Mitooma, Uganda. 17/12/2010
http://www.demotix.com/news/567895/poverty-uganda
The Fourth World refers to
countries and populations that
are often excluded from world statistics.
They are the poorest of the poor
countries and peoples on the planet.
http://www.oocities.org/fourthestat/
countries and populations that
are often excluded from world statistics.
They are the poorest of the poor
countries and peoples on the planet.
http://www.oocities.org/fourthestat/
A typical look of hunger stricken
people in Uganda. Currently a lot
of the village people in Uganda
have such a look yet some part
of the country have plenty of food
to produce. http://www.flixya.com/photo/2291371/A-look-of-Poverty-in-Uganda-amidst-hunger-striken-families
Children in Uganda are always fetching water, one of the features of extreme poverty.
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For a child in a slum, life is simply a dull pain. There are few joys, and yet the children one meets in a slum often still smile in spite of. Most of them do not go to school. 60 % of the inhabitants of Kampala - live in a slum and there many and they vary in the quality of life for its residents from bad to worse.
The average Ugandan woman has 7 children - a lot by Western standards but it is insurance for the future - there are not many retirement plans for Ugandans especially the poor. Children provide for their parents when they get older - however many children die an early death along the way.
http://kabiza.com/Children-born-into-slums-Africa-Uganda.htm
The average Ugandan woman has 7 children - a lot by Western standards but it is insurance for the future - there are not many retirement plans for Ugandans especially the poor. Children provide for their parents when they get older - however many children die an early death along the way.
http://kabiza.com/Children-born-into-slums-Africa-Uganda.htm
More than 4,000 children in Karamajo, North-East Uganda, received food aid from the World Food Program in summer last year. Photograph: Marc Hofer/WFP
The conceptualization of poverty in terms of children is even more important for Uganda given that about 57% of the total population is composed of children (defined as under the age of 18), suggesting that development policy should be focused on children more so than adults. Focusing on child poverty also has important implications for the inter-generational transmission of poverty because child poverty has significant long-term consequences. Children born in poor households are more likely to become impoverished adults and, in turn, to have poor children.
http://www.pep-net.org/home/page-interne/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=464&cHash=72609792299bab9b0afa5facad2923e0
Kawempe slum, in Uganda’s capital Kampala, is home to 300,000 people, many of whom have escaped the conflict in northern areas of the country. The slum is situated on poorly drained land, which in combination with poor sanitary conditions and overcrowding, make its inhabitants highly vulnerable to diseases such as malaria, cholera and diarrhea.
http://www.goabroad.net/LeftONCE/journals/10753/battles-of-poverty-cycling-through-lives-in-kawempe-uganda
Buying and selling goats at a market in Uganda. Access to markets is a major barrier to tackling poverty in the country.
http://www.theguardian.com/katine/2010/jun/25/uganda-farmer-francis-kamara
Photograph: Martin Godwin