Retain Orphan Girl Children in Schools in Uganda

Retention of orphan girl children project in Pallisa, Budaka and Kibuku districts – Eastern Uganda aims at empowering 80 widows in commercial vegetable growing to improve their family’s nutrition and income to pay school meals and scholastic materials for 1450 school going orphan girl children between 8-18years. The 80 widows have been empowered with modern knowledge and skills in vegetable growing and provided with vegetable seeds, pesticides and spray pumps as a sustainability means for the project. This is the May – July report and it is located on Globalgiving website and our website www.kagumudevelopment.org . The report clearly comprises of the progress of the project for the quarter ended March, 2017 with financial support from all stakeholders.

Current status of the project:
The following were done in the last quarter:

1. Procured onion seeds for 30 widows and they were given hands on farm training in onion growing.
2. Communally marketed onions, tomatoes, cabbages, egg plants and spinach harvested and distributed the proceeds to the widows.
3. Trained 25 community leaders on Child Protection practices to reduce on child abuse and child rights violations in the community.
4. Trained 50 widows on less energy intensive technologies to reduce pressure on trees.
5. Purchased 50 modern spray pumps for 50 widows.
6. Procured pesticides for 20 widows to spray and increase on harvest.

Challenges

1. The organization is faced with limited funding to support widows to undergo commercial vegetables production in order to maximize production and sustain the buyers demand
2. Some widows lack land and therefore, the organization hires land for them and they practice collective farming.
3. Rape and defilement of orphan girls which increases the risk of these girls being infected with HIV/AIDS hence early pregnancies therefore there is need to mainstream child protection activities in our project.

Recommendation
we submit our request to all development partners to extend their giving hand to the project to facilitate the implementation of this project in order to improve the social- economic empower of widow led households as this is the only viable project in terms of providing quick returns.

Retention of orphan girl children project in Pallisa, Budaka and Kibuku districts – Eastern Uganda aims at empowering 80 widows in commercial vegetable growing to improve their family’s nutrition and income to pay school meals and scholastic materials for 1450 school going orphan girl children between 8-18years. The 80 widows have been empowered with modern knowledge and skills in vegetable growing and provided with vegetable seeds, pesticides and spray pumps as a sustainability means for the project. This is the January – April report and it is located on GlobalGiving website and our website www.kagumudevelopment.org . The report clearly comprises of the progress of the project for the quarter ended March, 2017 with financial support from all stakeholders.

Current status of the project:
The following were done in the last quarter:

1. Enrolled more ten (10) widows to benefit from the project and they were given hands-on farm training in vegetable growing
2. Trained 25 community leaders on Child Protection practices to reduce on child abuse and child rights violations in the community.
3. KADO has provided vegetable seeds to twelve women for commercial production to raise funds to support 25 primary school girl children.
4. We have monitored 28 girls in schools.

Challenges

1. Prolonged drought that delayed the planting process
2. The overwhelming number of girl children dropping out of school due to lack of support.
3. Limited funding by the organization to meet the high expectations of the beneficiaries.
4. Two of our were raped and defiled and dropped out of school

Recommendation
we are kindly requesting for more support from our partners in order for us to be able to implement our intended goals.

 Testimony of Robina

This is a story from Robina the daughter of Catherine of Kagumu S/C in Kibuku district. Robina is currently 13 years, she was to sit for her Primary Leaving Examination last year December 2016. Before the examination, she was impregnated by a sugar daddy who even deceived her to make an abortion. After abortion the sugar daddy abandoned her as such she missed the examination which she had registered for. The guardians chased her from their home and she started practicing prostitution and KADO identified her roaming on the street moving with bad groups and counseled her, and the guardians and later they accepted to take her back to school this year 2017. The girl accepted to go back to school and complete her Primary Seven, she promised to join a vocational institution for a course so that she can have a certificate which she will use in future for any employment so that she can earn a living.

This is a true story and explains how our project works in respect to support of orphan girl children in Uganda.

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