In Uganda, child marriages continue to affect pupils’ retention forcing many young people to drop out of school. While child marriages affect young girl more, it affects boys as well. In the month of July 2019, with support…
The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF ) is pleased to announce its 1st call for proposal to achieve peaceful and gender equal societies in Malawi. In 2019, the Spotlight initiative and the WPHF will: a) partner in…
Womanhood is a stage in life that for every girl comes with excitement, anxiety, expectations, fear and also challenges. These challenges come with extra costs. It’s a natural process that makes a woman feel complete and…
In Uganda, children continue to silently experience violence in form of sexual abuse, bullying and corporal punishment which in the long run forces them to drop out of school. Since 2018, NCD with support from RTI…
As they always say that there is always a solution in every problem we face every single day. So true it is. After the week of training in First Aid and field visits, we were extremely nervous as were to go out and sensitize…
In Uganda, menstruation remains a subject hard to discuss by parents with their children. In school communities in Mukono District, every 7 out of 10 pupils first heard information about menstruation from their peers and…
1st October 2018 was yet a great opportunity for us to interact with the communities that we serve. Like I shared some time back, we are working to Break the silence, make period normal for girls ” in Uganda. Our visit to…
According to the Statistical Abstract 2014 of the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Sports , the Net Enrollment Ratio NER 97% of the Total population of the primary Going age in Uganda, 98% are female and 96%…
I was born here, I grew up from here, I studied from here, I learnt my first lessons from here, I made my first friends here, it’s the only place I understand most on earth because even when I sleep, I can explain the whole…
Meet my father. To make sure that my place of birth would bare a hospital name, my father rode a bicycle while my expectant (pregnant) mother carried a lamp on her laps so my father could see the small path amidst the…
