📷 'Incorporate unpaid care work into national plans, budgets'

Care work is the heartbeat of every society but in Uganda, most care work such as caring for children, elderly and sick people and those living with disability, as well as preparing food is not recognised as an activity that has economic and social value.

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According to the state minister for gender and cultural affairs, Peace Regis Mutuuzo (C), the time, effort and resources that people especially women invest in carrying out care activities enables households, communities, workplaces and economies to thrive, therefore, calling on the government to ensure unpaid care work are incorporated in national plans and budgets. (Credit: Mpalanyi Ssentongo)(