Retain Orphan Girl Children in Schools in Uganda

Summary

KADO acknowledges all partners/donors who have made remarkable contribution to support the retention of orphan girl children in schools in Uganda project. This is therefore, a quarterly report for November 2024 -January 2025. The project supported orphan girl 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 term one of the year 2025 has also just started. Pregnant orphan girls at school last year 2024. However, the year 2025 has just started and term on of the year stated on 2/2/2025.  The project team is monitoring our learners in schools to ascertain the number that reported for the term one of the year 2025 such that we plan to provide scholastic materials

Achievements;            

• 10 schools  visited
• Visited 50 orphan in schools in schools.
• 50 orphan girls so far identifies returns for term one of the year 2025.

Challenges:

• Limited funding and support to maintain the high number of orphans in schools.
• Difficulty in meeting school requirements for orphan girl children
• 3 of our orphans got early pregnancies and one was married off.
• The number of child mothers is increasing in schools and lack support

Recommendations:

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

Links:

• http://www.kado.or.ug