COVID-19: Children forced into child labour
To Jane, 16, a resident of Bwologoma village in Bugiri district, life during the COVID-19 pandemic is tough.
Jane lives with her grandmother. Her life flipped upside down when schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Her grandmother could no longer afford much which forced her to go digging in people’s gardens to get money for food for her and her grandmother.
“It’s hard to meet basic needs in these times. During school time, my grandmother would pay for my lunch at school but now we have to toil to get food for home,” she says.
