Contact Admin. Local government. Mubende, Uganda. Mubende, just like many other towns along highways in Uganda, is struggling with the challenge of prostitution involving young girls. The major streets in the town turn into brothels as soon as it gets dark. Christopher Kisekka Lifestyle Local government. Audio 4 Your browser does not support the audio element. Your browser does not support the audio element. Mubende Municipal authorities are considering tapping into the Youth Livelihood Programme, Uganda Woman Empowerment Programme funds and other grants meant for special interest groups to combat the increasing levels of prostitution in the area.
The most worrying trend is that most of the commercial sexual workers who pour on the streets are girls of 15 to 25 years of age. They offer sex for as cheap as Shillings Ben Baraza, the Principal Community Development Officer Mubende Municipality, says the challenge of commercial sex workers is getting bigger to an extent that it is becoming normal in the eyes of the community.
He blames the problem on poverty, poor parenting and the diverse cultures. Several efforts by government and non-government organizations to pull the girls off the streets are yet to yield results.
Baraza says their main to get the girls off the streets has been lack of the financial muscles since many see the vice as their only source of income. Mubende Municipal authorities, says this is the best strategy to get the girls off the streets. Baraza says the strategy can work as the girls and their young adults counterparts in commercial sex are given vocational training and supported through the mainstream government projects like YLP and UWEP.
The authorities have identified baking, tailoring, hair dressing and knitting as some of the viable projects that can help the girls. Login Signup. Signup Login Contact Admin.
