Combat Child, Early & Forced Marriages in Uganda

Project Report | Sep 13, 2023
combat child, early and forced marriages in Ugand

By Samon Namwoyo | Project Leader

Summary

Adolescent girls face numerous challenges that hider them to achieve their education goals. They live under hard conditions that expose them to child, early and forced marriages including poor health conditions. The project rescues girls aged 13-18 years from child, early and forced marriages in Uganda and increase their access to good quality primary and secondary education. The project addresses the challenge of increased early, child and forced marriages in Uganda. In Uganda more than 34% of girls are married before their 18th birthday every year in Uganda, and 1 in 10 is married before turning 15 years. In addition, COVID 19 caused escalation of teenage pregnancies and school dropout including child mothers. This is therefore, a report for June to August 2023.

Achievements

50 leaders mobilized and sensitized on 2020 new guidelines on pregnancy prevention and management in schools
80 parents mobilized and sensitized on 2020 new guidelines on pregnancy prevention and management in schools
240 adolescent girls mobilized and sensitized and provided sexual and reproductive health education
80 adolescent girls provided scholastic materials
125 adolescent girls provided re-usable sanitary pads.

Challenges:

Limited financial support still remains a challenge to accelerate project implementation
High cost of re-usable sanitary pads
Child bearing girls face challenges of paying baby sitter. They are not allowed to enter classes with babies and when they lack them they absent from studies taking responsibility of caring for their children.
High expectations by the target girls

Recommendation:

The organization request well-wishers to extend support to the reduction of child, early and forced marriages in Uganda. Child marriage is a human right violation issue and required a lot of attention. The increased child marriages in Uganda also undermine both the government and donors efforts put in education sector.

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