Are child-beggars on Uganda's streets 'sold'? - podcast episode cover

Are child-beggars on Uganda's streets 'sold'?

Feb 23, 202430 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

More than 100 mothers in Uganda have been given community service for allowing their children to beg on the streets of Kampala. We hear more about why street-begging is a huge issue in the country and how most are from a particular region where they are sold as a commodity.

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And we hear from a Tanzanian student, who fled Ukraine two years ago when Russia invaded, but now she has returned to complete her medical studies, even though the war rages on.