Kasese Uganda: the baseline impact survey is well under way now and should be completed by the end of August. This will give us a yard stick to measure our impact when we commence delivery to young people in schools and communities from September.
Jinja Uganda: We have attached the story of how the life of one young woman has been helped through one of our new Act4Africa youth areas at the sub county health clinics. She was able to deliver her baby safely in the clinic instead of on the floor of a dirty mud hut. Over the next year we aim to give hope for better access to health services for more young people and to continue bringing education about reproductive health for the young girls.
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Recently we gathered our senior project staff together in Jinja Uganda for our annual project progress review. We also took the oportunity to make a field visit to the nearby District of Mayuge. One of the villages was on the lake shore at the end of the dirt and was as remote as possible. This is a subsistence level fishing village and the kids in the picture were dirt poor and several were malnourished. I am so proud of our team from Jinja that they make the effort to reach remote communities like this with our programme. They are giving hope of better access to health services for the young people and bringing information about reproductive health for the young girls.
We are currently planning delivery of the project In Kasese Distirct, western Uganda and we will be reporting on the progress in our next report. Our Kasese team are currently training hard before they commence to enage with the young people in their local communties.
Thank you so much for your support it makes a significant difference.
We have been amazed and very grateful at the support for our project and we would like to thank each and every person who has supported us to date. We are now busy securing additional match funding to enable us to make a start on project delivery in June or July. We cannot wait to get started and once all funding is in place we will issue a further update.
