Vol 1 Happy Angels Youth Brass Band

Happy Angels Vol. 1

May 7, 2017

HAPPY ANGELS YOUTH BRASS BAND

Happy Angels Youth Brass Band, Uganda Edrine Wasswa, project director:

Kampala is a city of 18 million people, and over 70 percent live in slums. People living in slums have limited access to clean water, electricity, food and educational opportunities. Slums have over crowded communal bathroom facilities and many have open sewage that contaminates sources of clean drinking water. The slums are also home to over seven million children under the age of 14 who are growing up in abject poverty. Because food is scarce and the need for families to pool their resources for survival is great, there is tremendous Bwaise, Kampala, Uganda

“TALENT IS WEALTH”.

EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO REDUCING THESE FIGURES, IMPROVING HEALTH, SANITATION, SKILLS TRAINING, EMPOWERING ALL CHILDREN ESPECIALLY THE VERY YOUNG.

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pressure on children even as young as four years old to work.

Slum children work as rag pickers, sewage cleaners and in other unhealthy and dangerous jobs all around the Kampala, Bwaise region, earning a few shillings a day in order to stave off their family’s hunger.

Education and literacy are put off as parents struggle to balance the immediate needs for food over the need of a child to grow, develop and study in order to build a different life. It's a matter of basic survival.

Some other facts about poverty in Uganda should also give us pause.

About one fifth of the population live in poverty (down from more than half in the early 1990s), mortality rates for under-5s have been cut, the incidence of malaria has dropped and access to HIV treatment has increased. Even so, Uganda remains one of the world’s poorest countries, ranked a modest 163rd out of 188 in the 2015 Human Development Report.

Agriculture employs 80 percent of the workforce; nine out of 10 women are thought to depend on it. Smallholders account for 96 percent of farmers and 75 percent of agricultural produce. But they underperform significantly as a result of poorly integrated markets, limited access to credit, uncertain land tenure and low levels of technology. Limited market information and the inability to meet While food is regional and international standards limit generally exports. Post-harvest losses caused by available, access inadequate handling techniques and storage facilities have been estimated to to it is inadequate reach 40 percent in some sectors..

Any support given to a child will help another 1000 generations to come.

in some places.

Children suffer in same harrowing ways from this situation. Lack of clothes, shelter, education, food, new farming techniques, difficult weather conditions and changes, poor storage conditions, misuse of pesticides and lack of water, land that families cannot grow Enough crops to feed their children all year round. It is this reason why families live rural areas to

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hundreds of kilometers just to live in the slums of large cities like Kampala.

The families reasoning for relocation.

Back in the village they starve and they hope that in cities they may find work and survive though living in slum area without water in their houses like ours.

Girls have it worse. Some girls are married off early, work as indentured servants or end up in prostitution just to survive. Indeed, a major issue which faces Uganda is illiteracy amongst women. There are over 8 million illiterate women in Uganda recent studies show that infant mortality is directly inversely proportional to the education level of the mothers in other words, the children of illiterate mothers are much more likely to die young. These women have high fertility rates, poor earning potential,little autonomy in the household and bad quality of life. Girls literacy greatly affects the lives of the women, children and their whole society.

Let's all join hands to support Happy Angels Youth Brass Band which is taking part to help the children through music through any kind of help and support. Remember any support given to a child will help another 1000 generations to come.

Donate regularly at

Bwaise, Kampala, Uganda

https://www.gofundme.com/xyv9w67d

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