Eastern Equatoria Women Association program manager urges parents to be the providers of basic family needs, not their under-age children.
Radio Emmanuel quoted Amito Joyce Obwoya asking parents to be the ones to struggle for their children and support them by providing access to education.
She says there are children who are sometimes found on the street and when asked they say they are sent by their parents.
The leader reveals that there are under age children who are selling bottles in the streets, claiming they will take food home at the end of the day.
“Parents in the community leaving children under age to go and look for work in the market. They have to stop this, if there is a need for food or what to let the parents be the providers not the child. Sometimes we can record other children if we ask them, we observed them around the town in the street they will say their parents are the one who sent them to go and pick bottles and sells it then in turn brings in food home. So we are really urging this community especially the parents. Let them stop sending their children to go and work for them so that they bring food in the evening or money at least is them to work, struggle and send these children to school”, she appeals.
Amito states that underage girls who are dropped out of school and the orphans are sometimes subjected to sexual exploitation as they look for ways of survival.
She reveals that those issues are normally experienced at the market and business places.
“The girls who are drop out from the school, these girls who are sometimes the orphan those one who are at the high rates of Poverty, mostly they are these kinds of girls who are subjected to sexual exploitation. These issues we are experiencing it especially at the market places whereby if you move around you will get young girls, they are working in places like tea places even in other business they are there”, the chairperson notes.
The speaker made the remarks to Radio Emmanuel in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.