FOR 15 3000 FAMILIES TO GET OUT POVERTY

17 teenage girls receive rabbits supported by parents and other community members.The COVID-19 pandemic impacted all aspects of life in Uganda, resulting in school closures, loss of jobs, and disruptions in access to health and social services. But no group felt the effects of the pandemic more than teenage girls. Sex abusers, forced marriages and early marriages descended on teenage girls, rising rate of pregnancies to unprecedented levels in the country. Media reports of many young girls conceiving became especially common during the lockdown period and this in the end made worse by culture and unsupportive parents made them single mothers as the men that made them pregnant abandoned them and or denied the pregnancy. Single motherhood comes with the burden of raising the child and making sure that the child gets the basic care together with the mother. The teenage mothers were trained and rabbit breeding cages constructed by the community members

Unfortunately, these girls cant find decent jobs or work as they are limited by the level of education and societies disdain. To support their struggle to better families, KIHEFO has provided rabbits to these mothers in their local groupings as rabbit breeding has been the most effective form of income generation for poor families since they provide nutritious protein to the family. They have a gestation period of 30 days and maturity of 100 days hence making multiplication easy which in the end increases the sales thus an increase in the household income. We thank our partners who have supported us in this project and we pray that more partners join us in the fight to get poor people out of poverty.