By Arono Joyce | Proect Leader
Our SCOEN's campaign is tailored to impart nuggets of information, inspiration and motivation in regards to sexual reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, life skills, teenage pregnancy to mention but a few.
In the May to July, the project aimed at addressing youth issues in the quest to help girls and young women make informed choices in life, and is set out to advocate for the issues that are impacting young people in Uganda and to hold policy makers and leaders accountable for the decisions that directly affect the youth. More importantly is to empower the youth to take responsibility for receiving knowledge and demanding for the access to sexual and reproductive health rights information and services as well as empowering their peers with the same ti end child marriage.
The girl parliament brings together young people, government officials, policymakers, leaders, development partners, media and civil society towards the improvement of the Adolescents and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights with interest to end child marriage.
Grandmothers are essential to changing harmful traditional practices, such as teenage preganncy and child marriage. Grandmothers now know the harm that these practices can do to young girls’ lives and the lasting impact they have. Grandmothers work together to educate their communities about the importance of girls completing their secondary education and how child marriage harms girls’ physical and psychological development.
Grandmother Leadership training gives grandmothers the tools they need to make change in their communities. Armed with improved communication skills and leadership strategies, grandmothers are able to defend and support young girls in their communities against the harmful practice of child marriage.
In the next quarter we look forward to strengthening the knowledge and confidence of community leaders and groups to prevent and solve problems on their own specifically child & forced marriages.
We intend to reach 646 grandmother leaders, 250 community leaders, 2,135 mothers, 3,000 young girls and 856 young boys 158 community members, including grandmothers, mothers, teachers, community and religious leaders and young girls and boys participated in 5 Intergenerational Forums.
Your support makes these types of pivots possible in our work, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
With gratitude,
By Grace Achieng | Project Director
By Lucas Akol | Partner Relations Officer
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