Empower 10,000 Vulnerable Girls in Uganda

Imagine that you’re a really bright girl in a very vulnerable setting where your body is the only “asset” that you have to negotiate with. And that despite the obstacles, you’ve excelled in school.

You’re going to break the cycle of poverty by avoiding forced child marriage, rape, disease, and you’re looking forward to a job, a career, and having children when you’re ready, not when you’re forced to.

Then Covid arrives. Schools close. You're sent home from school. You're stuck at home, caring for your siblings, working harder than ever farming, carrying water, and at the whim of relatives who are sidelined themselves and frustrated. You see girls around you whose families marry them off for a bushel of plantains, which is no more than a day's worth of food. Where are you getting support? where's your hope and sense of purpose?

This is precisely the environment that we've been supporting girls through in rural Uganda. And we've continued to support girls the way we've all learned to stay connected: 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 Child Uganda team, you take to the airwaves via radio -- still a very popular medium in rural Uganda -- and leverage radio programming to reach vulnerable girls and families. The Girl Power Radio Hour is inspired by Just Like My Child Foundation's Girl Power Project®, where we educate and inspire adolescent girls around the world with an academically proven curriculum to make a difference in the life of a girl. 

The signal strength covers three districts that we work in - Luwero, Nakaseke and Nakasongola - and has been airing every week with different lessons of the Girl Power Project® Curriculum. After a year on the air, the program has reached hundreds of thousands of girls, families, stakeholders and is continuing to make a profound difference. The team is even launching its own page of “podcast episodes” so that girls around the country can listen in. Take a look at the list of episodes at this link.

We are very proud of our JLMC Uganda team and are overjoyed that the communities are still receiving the powerful lessons held within the Girl Power Curriculum. We want to thank the Women Rocking Business and Feminine Power communities for your generous contributions towards expanding the radio program.

We are grateful for all of the support to bring the Girl Power Project® around the world. We are all in this together, on a mission to Transform the World, One Girl at a Time™