The day of the street children starts early, as early as 4:00am. They wake and walk the three to four 4km from the village to Jinja town. The children are divided into groups, each entrusted with a task for the day. This can be anything from rooting through the garbage skips, visiting the abattoir for meat left overs, collecting firewood and charcoal or scrap metal to sell. They are also expected to return with money, leading to their daily street begging that we are all witness to.
However, we are not witness to the beating they receive when return home empty-handed because no kind uncle has flicked them a grubby coin or two. At around 8:00pm the children return home and hand in their day's earnings and gatherings. They will get a small meal if they are lucky and then go to bed, ready to start the whole onslaught the next day.
Some children do not even have a family to return to; classed as 'fulltime' they are runaways and occupy the streets twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
