Gender and community services
Gender and Community services, and looks specifically at general community issues, gender and culture, elderly and disability, probation and social welfare and crime. The major highlights are:
• Women of Kumi District constitute up to 51.5% of the total population (2002, population census) women participate in many economic activities but mainly in the informal sector
• Their workload ranges between 18 to 24 hours per day.
• For about 10 years now the level of unemployment in Kumi has risen to greater heights. This is because every year more than 6,000 people graduate from higher institutions of learning and join the already saturated Labor Market.
• Kumi District has vast and thrilling dances like Etida, Akogoi (Thumb pianos), Ajosi, Ekeebe and Amagarait.
• The district is endowed with historical sites and tourist attractions like the well known Nyero Rock paintings and Mukongoro Rock Paintings.
• 9,205 persons in Kumi district, representing 3.4 percent of the total population were categorized as disabled (2002 population and housing census)
• 2002 population and housing census, indicates that 96.6 percent of the district had no disability and 3.4 percent had a disability
• The youth constitute 19.4% of the district population of these 32159 are males and 35208 are females (2002 housing and population census)
• 14 percent of the children in the district are orphaned in 2002 population and housing census
Gender and Community services, and looks specifically at general community issues, gender and culture, elderly and disability, probation and social welfare and crime. The major highlights are:
• Women of Kumi District constitute up to 51.5% of the total population (2002, population census) women participate in many economic activities but mainly in the informal sector
• Their workload ranges between 18 to 24 hours per day.
• For about 10 years now the level of unemployment in Kumi has risen to greater heights. This is because every year more than 6,000 people graduate from higher institutions of learning and join the already saturated Labor Market.
• Kumi District has vast and thrilling dances like Etida, Akogoi (Thumb pianos), Ajosi, Ekeebe and Amagarait.
• The district is endowed with historical sites and tourist attractions like the well known Nyero Rock paintings and Mukongoro Rock Paintings.
• 9,205 persons in Kumi district, representing 3.4 percent of the total population were categorized as disabled (2002 population and housing census)
• 2002 population and housing census, indicates that 96.6 percent of the district had no disability and 3.4 percent had a disability
• The youth constitute 19.4% of the district population of these 32159 are males and 35208 are females (2002 housing and population census)
• 14 percent of the children in the district are orphaned in 2002 population and housing census