Combat Child, Early & Forced Marriages in Uganda

Summary

Adolescent girls face numerous challenges that hider them to achieve their education goals and their challenges equally pains boys 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. Girls 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. 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
• 2 awareness complain on early, child and forced was conducted in Kibuku district reaching messages to m350 people
• 840 students in schools sensitized on the negative effects of child, early and forced marriages
• 80 adolescent girls provided scholastic materials
• 125 adolescent girls provided re-usable sanitary pads.

 
Challenges:

• Low involvement of local leaders in enforcing defilement laws in the community
• Limited financial support still remains a challenge to oreint local leaders on defilement laws
• Stigma is high among pregnant and child bearing girls remain in schools and as such they drop out of school.
• 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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