Education Uganda Project #8930

All Ugandan girls should be able to go to school!

by The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project

Project Report | Mar 12, 2013
Nyaka Girls - Exception to the Rule

By Tashmica Torok | Development Associate

Fortunate

You have made Fortunate an exception.

Around the world today, 66 million girls are out of school.

Today, give $25 to save a little girl like Fortunate from a life of poverty.

It’s BONUS DAY and every gift you generously give will be matched by 30%!

Thanks to YOU, Fortunate is in school and receiving a quality education. And the impact of that is limitless!

Give NOW and help another little girl reach her fullest potential.

Did you know that girls with eights years of education are four times less likely to be married as children? Or that a girl with an extra year of education can earn 20% more as an adult?

Thank YOU for supporting a brighter future for girls in rural Uganda!

And YES, the education YOU help support keeps young girls like Fortunate out of an early marriage, and more likely to live a long, healthy and productive life.

YOU have already made 256 little girls (your little girls!) a global exception. And every time you donate, YOU help shift the global statistics by showing that YOU believe in young women.

On this Global Giving Matching Day, give a gift of $25 and YOU will provide two little girls like Fortunate with a school uniform.

Donate today, and watch it make a greater impact!

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Mar 4, 2013
Educating Our Girls

By Katelyn Carlson | Communications Coordinator

At Nyaka schools, we’re making our girls a priority.

Most recently, we had the honor of hosting Lorrie Lynn King, the Founder and Director of 50 cents. Period. Her work focuses on making sure young girls around the world have the supplies, facilities and education relating to menstruation.

In Uganda, where access to sanitary napkins and reproductive health education are scarce or lacking altogether, young women are often left at a major disadvantage. Recent statistics state that 25% of adolescent girls become pregnant before the age of 19. That’s one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The implications of this can be devastating. Pregnant teens are often unable to complete secondary school, which diminishes their chances for future employment, and they’re also at a higher risk of maternal death.

Lorrie spent some time with us on the ground, interviewing our students and their grandmothers. With her wonderful work, we have been further able to develop our reproductive health curriculum. Our girls will be better equipped and empowered in this world with the knowledge they’ll gain of how to take care of and protect their bodies.

After visiting Nyaka, Lorrie left us with these words: “Nyaka School changes lives and empowers entire families and communities…it is truly a blessed, magical place.”

We are so thankful for Lorrie’s dedication to this cause and the lasting impact she’ll have on the women and girls in our community!

And we are so thankful for YOU, because every time YOU donate to our girl students, YOU’ve ensured a brighter future for them.

From all of us over at Nyaka, we say THANK YOU again and again!

P.S. Mark your calendars! Global Giving will have their first matching day of the year on March 13^th! Give a gift on that day and will match your donation up to 30%! That's good news for everyone!

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Jan 24, 2013
Dance With Us! Walk With Us!

By Jackson Kaguri | Founder & Executive Director

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