By Samuel Odongo | Administrator Lira
Platform for Labour Action with support from GlobalGiving is implementing a project entitled “Educate 100 War and HIV/AIDS Orphaned Ugandan Girls”whose overall goal is to empower female children through education in Lango Sub region. This project was started as a response to the 21-year-old LRA war that left many children orphaned and destitute. There is a pressing need for rehabilitation and empowerment of female children through education. Whereas Lira district is no longer affected by war and the communities are in rehabilitation, there remains a need to better the future for all children especially the female through girl child education.
1.0 Details of school beneficiaries for 2022-2023 with their respective schools
No
Name of student
Class
Name of schools
1
Akullu
Vacation
Completed primary seven at Omito Primary School
2
Auma
Vacation
Completed priary SEVEN at Lira Army primary School
3
Adongo
Graduated
ompleted hair dressaing training at Vision ventures women entrepreneurs Association
4
Auma
Graduated
ompleted hair dressaing training at Vision Ventures Women Entrepreneurs Association
5
Amoo
Graduated
Completed hair dressaing training at Vision Ventures Women Entrepreneurs Association
2.0Home monitoring visit
Two home visits were undertaken to check on the welfare of these children. They were counseled and provided with psychosocial support as well as checking the performance of those who finished the course.
The Vocational trained children were gainfully employed in a saloon business earning between 100,000UGX to 200,000UGX. This has demonstrated the importance of education as without the training the children would not have been able to about such amounts.
3.0 Beneficiaries who completed vocational training
Three of the beneficiaries enrolled for vocational skilling namely, Adongo Amoo and Auma completed their vocational training in Hair dressing from Vision Ventures women entrepreneurs Association which entries was established by other girls who had benefited from the GlobalGiving support. We take this opportunity to thank the GlobalGiving team and donors for the tremendous role played in education these children affected by war and HIV/AIDS majority of who are orphans and were engaged in child labour before PLAs intervention and would never have attended school without this support.
4.0 Provision of Scholastic materials,
The girls were further provided with scholastic material incluing books, pens, pencils and living materials including sanitary pads to enable them have decent lives.
5.0 Case Stories From Amoo
My name is Amoo 16 years old. I am the eldest in my family and I have 3 siblings. Namely,Atim 12 years, Akello 8 years followed by Ocilo D05 Years old. Our mother was called Helen, but we do not know if she is still alive or dead because since she Left us in 2016, she has never came back. She never showed us our Father so as well we don’t know where he is and we don’t have any relatives known to us
Upon evicting them from our hut for failure to pay rent, our neighbor called Ogal offered us shelter in his home where currently they we are staying located in Akolodong Cell, Amuca word, Lira City west Division.
PLA was able to follow up on the safeguarding issues to ensure the children and safe and Mr. Ogal is married with his own four children hence he was able to help without fear of compromising the girl child.
Thank PLA for furthering our Education and enrolling me for Hair dressing and I have not embarrassed them as I completed successfully and opened my own saloon where I am training some people around home and they pay for this service.
I am planning on buying land land from Bar Village before end of 2024 from the saving am getting from the saloon work. Currently, the little money which am generating a day is 20,000/= exclusive of Lunch, break and other expenses.
I am currently training four female trainees as well as well as support my siblings. I would request PLA to take on my siblings the way they supported me so I can only concentrate on feeding them.
By Samuel Odongo | Administrator Lira
By Warren Nuwenyesiga | Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
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