KCCA Evicts Street Children From Downtown Kampala Amidst Resistance

Posted by: Suubi Anne in Uganda news March 17, 2021

Kampala City Council Authority(KCCA), yesterday evicted street children amidst resistance from them. KCCA carried out this operation in partnership with Dwelling Places home. This is not the first time KCCA is evicting street children from Kampala. As usual, the kids were clearly not interested in going with the crew. This brings a lot of questions to mind though. Who wouldn’t want to leave the streets for a comfortable home?

There have always been speculations that these kids are just dropped by their parents or guardians to make money. Otherwise which other reason would they have to refuse to be saved from begging to leave a decent life? Most of them were literally forced into the car as they wailed all the way. KCCA said it’s on a mission to reunite these children with their families.

Dwelling Places home said it has a program to rehabilitate these children as they look for their families. This whole program will take around three months before completion.

“At dwelling places, we take between 40 to 60 children and when they are there, they stay for only three months before they are reunited with their families. The whole process involves the rescue, rehabilitation, reconciliation, resettlement and re-integration,”

If this can be consistent, by the end of the year, there would be few or no kids on the streets. The only issue is that these operations are done once in a while.

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