COVID-19 HAS HAD HUGE EFFECTS ON THE BUSIIRO COMMUNITY
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OUR MISSION
To raise awareness of the reproductive rights and issues for young girls all over Uganda as well as the dangers of contracting AIDS, with specific focus on Buganda region and Busiiro village.
To provide workshops, clubs and set up forums where girls can safely discuss their experiences, especially those that stand in the way of their education.
To engage communities, local leaders and the police with the rights of the girl child – especially the right to education, protection and choices.
Oppose the culture that promotes early marriage
To challenge child prostitution in all its forms.
To work with secondary schools to reduce the dropout rate of female pupils specifically due to early pregnancy and the contraction of AIDS.
In Uganda girls and women are often not thought of as people of value and are almost always seen as second rate to boys and men.
There is a heavily negative attitude towards girls education with UNGEI reporting more than 700,000 girls between the ages of 6 to 12 having never attended school and around half of girls between the ages of 15 to 24 being illiterate.
