![]() ![]() The Kataka Gymnastics Club represents an opportunity for Katwe’s street children to avoid bad influences and master a sport, Mustafa says. Katwe regularly ranks among the country’s highest in rates of thefts, assaults and shootings. In 2019, Katwe police registered more than 4,500 crimes in the suburb, the highest number recorded in Uganda. Katwe, as an impoverished suburb of Kampala, is considered one of the most crime-ridden districts in the region. When they are at practice, they are away from bad things. We tell them every morning, when they have nothing to do, to please come to practice. So we keep them away from bad peer groups. It helps them a lot to practice gymnastics because they could easily get involved in drug abuse, being on the streets, wasting time gambling. Most of the kids have difficult backgrounds. We want to provide masks for them and get a thermometer to keep them safe. We also want to develop a training schedule for the kids to remain safe since coronavirus is growing in the country. We want to keep them encouraged to come back for practice the following day. On Sundays, we cook porridge for them after practice in the evenings. ![]() These days, they just come around for practice and after, we give them a banana, some water. We want to have a place where they can hang around, have a meal. ![]() The kids come from the streets, when they leave practice they just go back to the streets. ‘Most of the kids have difficult backgrounds’ ![]()
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