Empower a Girl: For Self-Reliance

You cannot be empowered unless you know the tools that empowers you

Throughout history and across since the beginning of nations till today, the history reveals; men on average have greater access to power (Brown, 1991). The gender power model suggests that power is generated on gender basis; particularly, men relative to women have greater access to the use of force, greater access to resource control, less social obligations to uphold, and more advantageous cultural ideologies (Pratto & Walker, 2004). Since than, this gender inequality can be observed in several aspects of daily life such as access to education, job opportunities, and economic resources including being exposed to resourceful places. According to a report by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (2014), they noted that: in 2011 only 20% of the low-income nations had achieved gender parity in primary education and 66% of the world’s 774 million illiterate adults were still women. There is consensus that gender equity is an important goal to be achieved by many including United Nations.

Although there are various techniques that can be used by various institutions fighting for the empowerment of women and girls across the global; Kole Intellectual Forum among others that has chosen to empower their girls out of schools through Home Economics. In it, among others, the organization is empowering the girls through exposure. They are taking them in various resourceful places to discover where resources that can empower them do exist. This time, they were taken to Kole District Local Government in Ugnada where a number of Government activities, and events take place to discover the truth about the resources and services that can be explore into.    

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• http://goto.gg/31562

Raising awareness of a true environmental crisis in Uganda in relation to the Institute of Home Economics: Kole Intellectual Forum

Our environment faces several problems, and many of these seem to be worsening with time, bringing us into a time of a true environmental crisis. It is therefore becoming increasingly important to raise awareness of the existence of these issues, as well as what can be done to reduce their negative impact. Some of the key issues are: pollution; global warming; overpopulation; waste disposal; ocean acidification; loss of biodiversity; deforestation; ozone layer depletion; acid rain; and public health issues among others.

Even if it is so that we at Kole Intellectual Forum link to our course of Home Economics are of environmental concern; with the aim of creating awareness; the organization, on the other hand, finds itself participating on the destruction of the environment; because at certain point you cannot do it otherwise. For instance, deforestation that are greatly done in order to make space for residential, industrial or commercial projects including in small scale but more destructive than those mentioned above; particular in firewood and charcoal making.

Kole Intellectual Forum being a victim of such circumstance, specifically in destruction of trees that are helping them in getting firewood being used at the institute for cooking; the organization feels they should introduce their students on the environment conservation for a better tomorrow and take up action to raise nursery beddings around their new proposed site of Institute of Home Economics. Link at:  Big Plan to construct an Institute, 2022, $100,000

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• http://goto.gg/31562