Delay Marriage Promote Schooling for Ugandan Girls

It was amazing listening to the girls narrate their journey with Joy for Children Uganda from primary to secondary schools! Last week, we worked with community volunteers and school coordinators to catch up with direct beneficiaries of the project. We realised some girls have lost their goats but they are stil in school through great difficulties. Those that stiil have them are excited with the way they are supporting them in their studies.

We appreciate your generosity for with your support, we have enabled more girls keep in school and persue their dreams.

We ask you to join us one more time and we reach out to more volnerable girls, especially those that have joined post primary education but have lost their goats or sold them off completely. We are afraid that if we do not intervene, they will drop out of schools and give inn to early marriages.

• success stories (DOCX)

It is one of our plans to make follow up on goats' beneficiaries in Karangura Sub county. Goats were given out in different phases. In our visits, we noted that some parents had made a great progress in the area of goat keeping. When the my daughter was offered a goat four years ago, I got impressed. My wife and I decided to gazzet part of our iddle land for a goat farm. We sold our coffee and bought more three goats to graze with the one our daughter had been offered. We did that because that daughter had other three siblings who were also in need of support to keep in school until completion one of the parents reaveled to our team.

Our team also confirmed that some beneficiaries' goats had died. JFCU bought more 20 goats to replace the dead ones, and also donate to the two girls that were among the top candidates in the 2018 Primary Leaving Examinations as a way of recognising their hard work and commitment to studies.

We agreed that beneficiaries' gots with kids were to be given to new beneficiaries as it has always been the custom.