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[00:03:19]It is their con constitution mandate. It is a constitution mandate to the government pressure to provide even at the young age. Many feel responsible for supporting siblings, parents or even their own children, creating significant financial and emotional stress. Some youth become involved in gangs or criminal activities due to lack of opportunities. Though many actively try to avoid that path, but they also have positive side. The term ghetto boy is not only associated with hardship. Many young people in Campala ghetto show remarkable creativity and entrepreneurship. Youth groups have created businesses from recycling western useful products. A typical boy in Campala may wake up without guaranteed income for a day, spend hours looking for or hustling in the formal economy, face challenges such as poor housing and unemployment, yet still maintain strong friendship, ambition, humor.

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[00:07:22]in dreams of improv providing himself what to eat. Many are working hard to build businesses, support families or break out by poverty despite the difficult circumstances. The living conditions of ghetto children in Machindia. Today we bring you the story children living on the streets in the ghettos of Machindia. We spoke to seo and of these children to understand how they ended up on the streets who influenced the journey and the struggle to survive one day. According to these children, many of them came to the streets because of poverty, family conflicts, domestic violence and the loss of parents or guardians.

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[00:10:59]Some were forced to leave their homes in search of food, shelter, and better life. Others were abandoned for themselves with no living to care for them. Life in the ghetto is extremely difficult.

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[00:12:07]Their children face many challenges including hunger, lack of proper shelter, poor sanitation, and limited access to education and healthy care. To survive, many engage in small businesses such as collecting scrap materials, washing vehicles, carrying out luggage or sell small items on the streets >> is poverty. Most of these people work, they have kiosks. But for example, we we literally came from N. These are the suffering people from the ghetto. If you have a kiosk near the road because we cannot afford the manions, we cannot afford those posh houses. We cannot afford to rent those shops. We always have kiosk and sometimes we are evicted.

[00:12:56]But more or less they even come to the ghetto and evict the people from the ghetto. So most of the people from the ghetto are not going to the school. We have the highest percentage according to the statistics of education. Most of our people that drop out from school because of lack of basic needs, even just affording books, just because our parents are evicted. Anytime you can be arrested and when it comes to politics, you can even be arrested just because you possess a tattoo on your body. This >> despite their efforts, earning enough money to meet their daily needs remains a constant struggle. Their children also expressed concerns about their treatment by authorities. They claim that they are often targeted by police officers who sometimes suspect them of crime simply because they live on the streets. And according to these children, they are frequently chased away, arrested, mistreated, or even they're not involved in any wrongdoing. They say this creates make this creates fear and makes them lives even more challenging. Despite of these hardships, many of these children remain hopey for a better future.

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[00:15:13]First of all, we also wanted to respect to pay tribute to our coaches, our boxers, the fighters, but also to recognize that talents come from the ghetto. Without the ghetto, we cannot have the tyrants. The likes of Muhammad Ali come came from the ghetto. The likes of >> Pacquiao came from the ghetto. The likes of Saka come from the ghetto.

[00:15:46]The number is the list is endless. But most importantly, most of us come from the ghetto. I come from the ghetto. His excellenc comes from the ghetto. Therefore, we must give the ghetto priority.

[00:16:00]>> They dream returning to school, learning skills, finding stable jobs and becoming productive members of the society. They are calling upon the government agencies, community leaders, non-government organizations and well-wishes. Support them with education, shelter, counseling, and opportunities that can help