Namayingo: Kadaga discredits high pace of teen pregnancy

The First Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga has promised to address high pace of teen pregnancy, cross boundary clashes and administration conveyance hole in Namayingo region by drawing in various innovators nearby.

Kadaga offered the comments during a gathering pledges drive pointed toward raising assets to restore some grade schools in the locale which are right now in helpless condition.

Around 60 schools in Namayingo region are in a sorry state requiring specialist consideration before schools are returned in January one year from now and Busoga pioneers started off the raising money drive to guarantee that these schools are upheld.

During the dispatch of the drive, Kadaga who gave Shs 5 million and 1,000 iron sheets to redesign the most impacted schools beginning with Namayingo grade school.

She ascribed the high pace of ahead of schedule and young pregnancy in the region to Covid-19.

“Coronavirus has exacerbated the circumstance. It was awful enough as of now yet it has deteriorated due to the pandemic. At the point when kids are inactive, guardians are not dealing with them .So we must give a lot of consideration particularly in the island locale since life is certainly not a basic one,” she said.

Concerning condition of schools in the region, Kadaga clarified that as pioneers they have consented to work on the instruction nearby under Busoga training drive.

Vincent Kimali, the region senior instruction official, noticed that numerous little youngsters have become pregnant during Covid-19 lockdown, communicating dread that some of them are bound to exit school.

Kimali said out of the 84 schools in the region, 80% of them should be revamped and given furniture on the grounds that their students have been perched on the floor.