The commissioner-in-charge of children affairs in the Ministry of Gender, Mondo Kyateeka has said there is nothing to pride about siring many children one cannot care for.
Kyateeka, who was speaking during the opening of the office of Kitezi Samaritan, an affiliate of International Samaritan, a US based NGO that works to uplift the standards of people working in dumping sites.
Nobody contracted you to produce many children. Produce only those you can look after . Don’t say because such and such an NGO is here, I can give birth to all children I want. When you give birth to a child, it is your responsibility to look after that child,”Kyateeka said.
“The children you are siring now you don’t know where they will end up a few years to come. Therefore produce a few you can look after. If God has only one begotten son, Jesus Christ, who are you to produce many children?”
Kyateeka said it is a bad practice for people to produce thinking government or NGOs will bear the burden of looking after their children.
“When such a good Samaritan comes in to give a helping hand, we must not leave all the work for them. Let us do everything we can not to over rely on them but also play our part as Ugandans.”
He noted that the root cause of all problems is poverty which he said must be fought with all energy by everyone.
“The gap between poor and rich is very wide and as long as this continues happening, we have a problem. We must get interested in fighting poverty.”
David Kafambe , the Executive Director of Kiteezi Samaritan said the NGO aims at uplifting families working in dumpsites like Kiteezi.
“Someone working in a garbage dumpsite is the lowest level someone can have and we are here to walk hand in hand with them and support them to break the barrier of poverty. We invest in education of their children so they can come back to develop their communities,” Kafambe said.
“We also support women with livelihood programs but also enable the women to acquire different skills in entrepreneurship, digital literacy, craft making, and jewelry making among others.”
He said this year they are investing over shs1.5 billion in the program .
