Irene Ikomu, Founder, Parliament Watch Uganda and Mandela Washington Fellow

2. The Ugandan Child

4. Early Child Development

5. One in every 19 children is at risk of dying before their
first birthday; and one in every eleven children is at risk
of death before or at the age of five

6. In Uganda,
malnutrition
is a ‘hidden
problem’
because
children are
moderately
as opposed to
extremely
malnourished.

10. One in every four girls aged
15-19 years is either pregnant
with a child or has had a live birth

11. Education

14. 26 percent of the entire
population aged 13-18 years is
enrolled in secondary schools,
meaning two-thirds of children
in Uganda are
out of school.

16. Protection

17. Nearly all Ugandan
children (96 percent) are
vulnerable; 43 percent
(7.3 million) suffer from
moderate vulnerability,
and 8 percent (1.3
million) suffer from
critical vulnerability.

20. There can
be no
keener
revelation of
a society’s
soul than
the way in
which it
treats its
children
— Nelson Mendela