Retain Orphan Girl Children in Schools in Uganda

Summary

KADO acknowledges all partners/donors who have made their contribution to support the project. This is a quarterly report of June to September on the retention of Orphan girl children in Uganda: Supported child caretakers with agricultural inputs, trained adolescent orphans in reusable sanitary pads making, distributed re-usable sanitary pads to adolescent orphan school girls, provided meal fees child mothers and pregnant orphan girls at school.

Achievements;            

• 60 mobilized and trained in reusable sanitary pads making.
• 300 reusable Distributed to targeted school girls
• Provided Uganda shillings 25,000 to 12 girls with children to facilitate buying food for babysitters when at school
• Paid for meals of 7 pregnant girls at school
• Visited 30 orphans in schools.

Challenges:

• Limited funding and support to maintain the high number of orphans in schools.
• Difficulty in meeting school requirements for orphan girl children
• The number of pregnant girls in schools is increasing in schools and lack support
• The number of child mothers is increasing in schools and lack support

Recommendations:

Retaining orphan girls in schools in Uganda requires collective effort of the community, donors. There is high early pregnancies, child marriages and school dropout. KADO therefore, request for support of all stakeholders tom enhance education of girl children in Uganda which is still very low.