Nearly 50% of orphaned children live with their grandparents COMMENT | LYDIA MIREMBE | Recently I was riding in a taxi, enduring Kampala’s evening traffic jam, as motorists and cyclists crisscrossed between lanes, taking advantage of every available space to pull forward. Suddenly I heard the driver of our taxi shouting …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Less than 10% of the workers in sub-Saharan Africa save for old age, the lowest rate for any region in the world. That implies most of the breadwinners today won’t be able to afford basic items after retirement. A pension plan is meant to commit …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority-URBRA says up to 13.8 million people in Uganda are at risks of old age poverty in Uganda. The authority based its computation on the 2014 census data. The census found that there are 935,000 older persons in Uganda. …
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