The number of child-headed families have reportedly increased in Angaba village, Koro sub county in Omoro district.
A child-headed family is a domestic arrangement where children or adolescents live independently without any adult caregiver, with an older sibling taking on parental responsibilities to provide leadership, make major decisions, and care for younger siblings or relatives.
According to reports from the LC1 chairperson for Angaba village, Francis Ojara, there are more than 10 child-headed families in his village right now where parents travel far distances to farm for months, leaving the young ones alone at home to manage the home.
Ojara says that other child-headed families are total orphans who have no parents to take care of them, meanwhile others have only the mother who decided to re-marry and abandon her children to live alone while she is at the place of the new husband.
Ojara adds that as a result, many children at his village didn’t study in the first term because children cannot send their fellow children to school, some children who had parents were not taken to school because the parents claim they don’t have the money to do so.
Ojara says they have reported to the subcounty so that the office of the LC1 together with that of the LC3 can join hands and see way forward especially now that term 2 is almost beginning.
Walter Odur, the LC3 Koro sub county confirms the development saying that they have so far sat together and come up with measures to solve the situation which is in the process.
By Becky Ekwany
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