Bride wealth is a token gratitude from which the boy’s family pays to the girl’s family in exchange for marriage. Bride price can be given in material things like cows, goats, clothes, money and many others.

Bride price is a long-standing tradition practiced in many societies worldwide. While it varies in form, significances, and processes across cultures, bride price typically involves a groom and his family offering goods, money or services to the bride’s family as part of marriage negotiations. This is analysed by unu-wider. Bride price is still in use in 75% off countries globally.

Coffee is Uganda’s top earning export crop as analysed by en.m.wikipedia.org. In 1989, Uganda’s coffee production capacity exceeded its quota of 2.3 million bags, but export volume were still diminished by economic and security problems, and large amounts of coffee beans were still being smuggled out of Uganda for sale in neighbouring countries. Uganda is one of the few countries in the world with indigenous coffee, with Robusta coffee growing wild around Lake Victoria.

A polythene bag is a bag made of thin plastic, especially one used to store or protect food or household articles. It is made from polythene, a type of plastic that is the most commonly produced plastic in the world. Polythene bags are used in a variety of industries, including food, grocery, and healthcare.

In Uganda, the act 2009 prohibited the importation,local manufacturer,sale or use of polythene bags and material, but this act upto today has not been put in place or order monitor. People have failed to stop using polythene bags and this is because polythene bags are cheap to produce and at a times are given for free by retailers, resistance to change since alternative sources are a bit expensive like tote bags, lack of awareness of the negative impacts of polythene bags, weak enforcement and lack oof penalties allow their continue use among others.

A street child is a child who lives on the street or has a strong connection to public space like street, parks and bus station.

More than a thousand children aged between 7 years and 14 years are living on the streets of kampala for their survival, they may either live or work on the streets or have support networks on the street.

These children sometimes may end up on the streets because of poverty, discrimination, parental death and neglect, child abuse, mental health issues, natural disaster, displacement, due to conflict, disabilities, running away from home and institution, abandonment by their families.

Slums are thickly populated sections especially of a city marked by crowding, dirty rundown housing, and generally poor conditions. Kampala is the capital city of uganda and there are about sixty two slum settlements and about 60% residents live in them.

It is estimated by SSA Uganda according to Action Aid International that over 1.5 million people out of Kampala’s populatioon live in slums out of which 1.2 million do not have access to latrines for human excreta disposal.