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 va...