Retired Sex Workers in Kalangala Island Turn to Using Megaphones to Advertise and Recruit More Teenage Girls and Clients for the Trade.

📸: Courtesy Image of Sex Workers. Photo source, Internet. 

📸: Part of Kalangala Island in Kalangala District, Uganda.

Story by Ezekiel Ssekweyama

Kalangala District.

12-March-2026.

Kalangala district is struggling with the growing aggressiveness by commercial sex agents who are recruiting more teenage girls into prostitution. The agents operate on the different landing sites in Kalangala, where they act as main links between commercial sex workers and their prospective clients, who include local fishermen and revelers in bars and other entertainment spots operating in the area.

Tadeo Luwukya, the L.C.1 Chairperson for Misonzi landing site in Bufumira sub county, confirms that they have witnessing an unprecedented rise the numbers of teenage girls, as young as fourteen getting engaged in the commercial sex work. He explains that the majority of the victims are from the other parts of the country, who are brought to Kalangala as attendants in the various entertainment places such as bars, lodges, beaches among others, where brokers recruit sex them.

The brokers, according to Luwukya, are retired commercial sex workers who were pushed out of the trade by either age or diseases, and have now resorted to enrolling teenagers as sources of their continued survival. He says that the notorious ones have reached the level of using community megaphones to market the business, which is also contributing to an increase in the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the area.

Source: URN.

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