events and news at CRO
On the 16th of December, 2022, CRO Uganda celebrated 30 years of serving children in street connected situations as well as the communities from where they’re resettled. This was under the theme found in 1Samuel 7:2; “Ebenezer” meaning “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us”.
Kevin (16) from Lira dropped out of school after completing PLE in 2019. She was not able to join Senior
My name is Fred. I am the second born of five children (four boys and one girl). We have grown up with our paternal grandmother in Namatala slum, Mbale City.
The international day of the African Child is celebrated on 16th June and the year 2023, CRO Uganda held the celebration at it’s CRO Masaka Project branch.
Sandra from Okworo-Okworo in Lira City East last attended school in primary two (P 2 class) at Akia primary school in 2017 due to poverty since her family couldn’t raise even the few school requiements considering they were many children at home. She is the fifth born out of seven siblings of her mother plus many from her father.
Kevin (16) from LIra dropped out of school after completing PLE in 2019. She was not able to join Senior One in 2020 because of her poor family could not afford the fees and other requirements.
The Day of the African Child is celebrated each year on June 16th. The day recognises the ten thousand black students that marched in the streets of South Africa calling for an end to the Black Education Act on June 16th, 1976. The Black Education Act legally segregated students based on their race and created damaging inequalities in South Africa’s education system.
Ayao Oliver aged 17 years old hails from Apac districtand is the second born in her family. Since her childhood,she
Brian(16) dropped out school in primary four(4) in 2018. In 2018, he joined the streets of Lira town after the separation of his parents that left him and his siblings with their grandmother and uncle.
Isaac(15) left his fathers’s home in Otuke District in May 2018 andjoined the streets of Lira town. This was after the demise of his mother in 2017. His father married another wife who subjected him to intermittent beatings,torture and falsely accused him before his father. Isaac says,“my father would get so annoyed with me and one day he said that he would kill me if he heard anything again.This scared me so much that I ran to the streets in Lira town in a bid to save my life..“
