The impact of gold mining in pupils’ academic performance at school in Mutumba sub county, Namayingo district Uganda
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2024
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Busitema University
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Work for survival traces back to the story of the garden of Eden when God sent Adam and Eve away to fend for themselves after disobeying his instruction of not eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge. Since then. Man works in order to get what to eat and cater for their basic needs. With the advent of formal education, formal work sector evolved. This means one under goes education until such time when one gains skills and knowledge to perform tasks of a given formal career. This formal career means a wage at the end of a mouth. However, with the fact that not everybody is destined to succeed through formal education, a majority of people especially in Uganda remain fending for a living in the informal work sector. this kind of fending involves hard labor in the garden fields, in peoples" homes, in stone quarries and in the gold mines among many others. And the central expected output for the study was the agreement of the results of the study with either the null hypothesis or the alternatives hypothesis. The researcher was pleased to say the results rejected the null hypothesis and confirmed the alternative hypothesis. The documentary review of the study showed that candidates who failed and passed in week grades in the PLE examinations of 2023 were perpetual absentees while candidates who attended school regularly registered a better academic performance in PLE of 2023. The study also found that artisanal gold mining in Mutumba sub county has immensely affects academic performance of children by causing poor school attendance, loss of interest in education, influencing children to work for financial independence, exhausting their physical potential, and at worse diverting professional effort of some of the teachers. To mitigate these impacts, the study implores stakeholders in education to impartially implement children’s safety laws; provide adequate emotional support, raise community awareness and collectively mobilize financial support towards alternative income –generating activities. Regarding the strategies to reduce child labor in the gold mines and positively reintegrate child miners into school, the recommends the social capital for children in communities, exploring the influence of the child support grants, targeting train generational sexual norms, applying the law on underage child labor and making information on contraception and more accessible for girl children who are working in the sites. In nutshell, the study recommends multifaceted and inter sectoral approach are required to be employed so as to help to reduce child labor in gold mine.
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Mbago, S. (2024). The impact of gold mining in pupils’ academic performance at school in Mutumba Sub County, Namayingo District Uganda [Research Report]. Busitema University