By Audrey Kanyesigye | Country Director
What do you do in Uganda when you can't reach girls where they are? When schools are closed down and girls are more vulnerable than ever because they're stuck at home in increasingly unsafe environments?
Well, you do what we've all learned to do lately: you meet with them virtually!
However, In rural Uganda, internet connectivity is still highly unreliable and the vast majority of young girls do not have access to a device with streaming or video capability.
So, if you're super industrious like our Just Like My Chid Uganda team, you take to the airwaves via radio -- still a very popular medium in rural Uganda.
Last week we launched the first of a series of Girl Power Hour Radio Show segments aimed at sharing Girl Power Project curriculum with adolescent girls and the communities in which they live.
The signal strength covers three districts that we work in - Luwero, Nakaseke and Nakasongola - and will be aired every Thursday until the end of the year covering different lessons of the Girl Power Project Curriculum.
The first episode featured a 17 year old girl power mentor who also recieves a sponsorship for secondary school from Just Like My Child Foundation.
She talked about how much she learned from the Girl Power Project on health, confidence, following her dreams and that her primary focus is now education first before getting married and pregnant. She also vowed to continue to empower other girls to do the same. Girl Power graduates mentoring other girls is the "good kind of virus" that has spread rapidly throughout our communities.
In fact, during the "call in" portion of the show, a caller asked the Just Like My Child Foundation team to assist police and community members in intercepting a forced child marriaged between a 60 year old man and an adolescent girl. This immediate success of educating the community at large is exactly the impact we are hoping to achieve.
We are very proud and grateful that the communities are still receiving the powerful lessons held within the Girl Power Curriculum.
As the world continues to reel from this Global Pandemic, we at Just Like My Child Foundation are working with our partners, searching for ways to reach even more girls with the scientifically validated Girl Power Project curriculum that you as a supporter have helped us to evolve over the past 14 years. We are so appreciative of your continued love and support.
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