While the sub-county’s population is mostly made up of children under the age of 18, it’s common to find only a small percentage of them attend school. Unable to afford attending school, these individuals spend each day doing arduous tasks like fetching gallons of water, carrying wood, or making bricks. These jobs often pay about 5,000 Ugandan Shillings, or barely two US dollars, each month, which is only enough to buy food for one family.

How to donate money to Japan while looking chic

In many parts of Africa, the AIDS epidemic is raging; exacerbated by malnutrition, prolonged violence and failed governments. This is the case in Zimbabwe, a country of 13 million people, over 1.6 million of whom are living with HIV/AIDS. Zimbabwe, which has seen its economy collapse and healthcare system crumble under the reign of President Robert Mugabe, has forged the most unlikely of bonds with the San Francisco Bay Area, USF and the man that connected the two worlds together, Dr. Robert Scott.

Columnist Jon Coon discusses the greater issues that some hip-hop artists are actively involved in today. Jon Coon is a junior international business major and politics minor.