Project Report
| Nov 18, 2020
Media campaign to prevent early marriages
By Janani Loum | Director
The current corona virus pandemic has changed the original plan of our project. By this time we would have been doing in person mentorship session with teenage girls both from school and at home. However, this has not possible because we have to maintain social distancing.
However, we decided to run a media campaign against early marriages and we are happy to report that between July and November 2020, we conducted 11 radio talkshows. This talkshows were schedule at a time when most young people tune in. Listeners were given opportunities to call and ask questions, tell their stories or seek clarifications.
Our in person sessions are expected to return in February 2020.
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Jul 20, 2020
Project Halt Due to COVID-19
By Janani Loum | Director
Due to the COVID-19 pandamic and subsequent lockdown measures by the Ugandan government, our project fucused on preventing 500 teenage girls in Gulu from early marriages, were until now put on suspension.
Since March 2020 the government of Uganda suspended all public gathering of more than five people along with closure of all schools. Since our project focused mainly on interaction between project staff, volunteers, community members and school and community teenage girls, we were until now not able to continue with it. However, we plan to resume with the project in due time when the government eases restriction contacts which would allow us to continue with the project.
During the lockdown period however, we have decided to shift focus abit and contribute to the fight against the corona virus. We have been reproducing information from our ministry of health and the world health organization and translating these information in local languages to help the community understand how to keep safe and avoid infection. We have also been distributing hand sanitation equipment like handwash containers and soap to public food markets which are allowed to operate
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Mar 18, 2020
Multi-stakeholder meeting on girl child
By Janani Loum | Director
CEOU organized a stakeholder meeting in January 2020 to come up with strategies to keep girls at school and reduce on teenage pregnancies. Among the stakeholders that participated were community leaders, politicians, representative of civil society organizations and parents. The topics dicsussed were education of girl child, mentorship, girls as leaders, health of teenage girls and roles of communities in supporting girl child. Finally the stakeholder meeting ended with goal setting.
In February 2020, a conference bringing together 200 teenage girls from 5 primary schools, were organized and conducted. This was one platform were teenage girls were able to identify problems that affects their struggle for a better and just future. Key points which included traditional belief, poverty of their household and access to justice for the abused, were documented to push for policy changes.
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