Kampala — President Museveni has said the Government will soon carry out an intensive study on street children to see how they can be rehabilitated with a view to give them parental care.

Experts say Uganda has at least 8000 street children. A renowned Ugandan child welfare activist, Jolly Nyeko, told The New Vision that Kampala has about 4000, Mbale about 800 and Jinja about 500 street children. The rest are spread out in other urban centres.

Nyeko, who helped establish the National Council of Children, said some of the children are orphaned by AIDS but many are driven from their homes by poverty and mistreatment.