ICHAD study coordinator, Wilberforce Tumwesige, presented at the ICHAD and SMART Africa January team meeting. He presented findings from a paper that was recently submitted to the children and Youth Services Review journal, on “Understanding child employment among adolescent girls in Southwestern Uganda: Baseline findings.” Wilberforce co-authored this paper with William Byansi, Joelynn Muwanga, and Drs. Sensoy Bahar, Ssewamala, and Nabunya. The study findings from Suubi4Her baseline data showed that 51 adolescent girls (4%) out of the 1,260 study participants were engaged in child employment Poverty is considered one of the main factors pushing school-going children into paid work to supplement their family’s income and pay for their tuition and scholastic materials.
