In
the course of my trade I have found out that 70% of these Children don’t run to
the streets because of either losing
parents/guardians or lacking a home or where to stay, but from what I have come
to call “Character-identity/strength to belong.”
These
have come destitute because of failing to belong in a community/family of
either abuse, absent parental-fibre or split Paternal-Maternal tribal
lineage/roots.
They
always opt to run or turn to the streets to belong somewhere or at least
associate with peers of identical character-identity/strength.
Unfortunately,
this new found character-identity is often characterized by substance or behavioral
abuses and addictions that include but not limited to; drug abuse, prostitution
and criminality.
NOTE:
Most worrying is that this character-detriment also manifests in adults that have
been well schooled, employed, travelled and some of the brightest minds have
become victims of this silent assassin!!
*Stephen Magyezi
Omukiga-Wekiniga
