The revelation was made yesterday by the National Children Commission (NCC) in Kigali in a meeting that brought together the NCC and city District Mayors and Vice-mayors in charge of social affairs.
The meeting was aimed at assessing challenges children face.
NCC revealed that children have different problems including being left by parents, sexual violence and carrying early pregnancies, and rights violation among others.
Gasabo District comes on top with a total of 21.827 children including 10.800 females, Nyarugenge District with 11.578 with 5.750 females and Kicukiro District with 10.611 children in total with 5.382 females.
NCC Executive Secretary, Claudine Uwera Kanyamanza said that the meeting aims at taking decisions on problems children face.
“In this meeting, we expect to set up sustainable measures to tackle challenges faced by children and how to address them. Prevention can help us to solve these problems before they grow to unmanageable levels,” she explained.
Nyarugenge District Vice-mayor in charge of social affairs, Jean Marie Vianey Ndayisenga said that some children are brought by parents and engage them in risky street life.
“You should help us in solving the problem of children brought by their parents from countryside and take them on streets for begging; this problem has taken another stage,” he appealed.
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