By Samuel Odongo | Administrative Assistant Lira
1.0 INTRODUCTION
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. Before covid 19 PLA was supporting 37 girl children in Primary, secondary and Vocational Training schools.
2.0 Home monitoring visit
PLA staff have continued to support the girls from their homes during the closure of schools. Following the government’s closure of schools due to the outbreak of the second wave of Covid-19, two of primary beneficiaries who are in primary six were unable to continue with their primary education.
The Lira field office staff carried out thirty five homes to check on the welfare of these children. The children were provided with psychosocial support as well as providing them with food stuffs including rice, sugar, washing soap, Posho and Beans. During home monitoring visit, children were found to have been in a health condition amidst covid-19. However the children are facing challenges with accessing food since most of the livelihoods of their care takers were disrupted as a preventive measures from COVID -19 which is giving them hard time to access food to feed them as well as the entire family. PLA provided the food stuff to give their care givers relief since many had not also accessed the government food stuff which was give as Covid relief to poor citizens in Uganda due to many varying reasons. Many Ugandans did not have their national Identification cards and hence could not access the government relief aid food.
3.0 Beneficiaries who reported back to school
Three of the beneficiaries enrolled for vocational skilling namely, Adongo , Amoo and Auma began their vocational training in Hair dressing at Vision Ventures women entrepreneurs Association. The thirty two children in Primary school have not yet reported to school due to the schools country wide remaining closed.
The children have also remained in constant contact with the PLA staff to enable them cope with the situation especially due to a very high rise in the prices of food stuff and yet the guardians and care givers have lost their sources of incomes there by having their livelihood affected. Many of the children have been involved in child labour as the schools have remained closed and due to poverty there is limited enforcement of the law to hold anyone accountable.
The children has continued to appreciate the support they receive especially now as more support is neeed to provide the children with counseling as many may not want to go back to main stream school after losing two years of school during the covid lock downs in the country.
By Samuel Odongo | Administrative Assistant Lira
By Samuel Odongo | Administrative Assistant Lira
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