Save Hope of 6,800 Girls drop out of school Uganda

APPCO this time has reached to a number of vulnerable girls and boys with a number of interventions including; community dialogues on GBV prevention and response, referral and advocacy, support transitioning and graduation of nursery girls into primary, interactive learning sessions planned, peer to peer support sessions, school assessments and coordination meetings with district partners as detailed below.

2.0. ACHIEVEMENTS;

ü  Supported 3 dialogue meetings with parents and community leaders on inclusive education and ECD concept for increased enrollment of marginalized children into school. The dialogue aimed at getting the opinions from the key stakeholders on how inclusive education can be achieved among the CWDs with major focus on pre-primary levels. The community leaders have confirmed that the major challenge is lack of trained teachers to handle the children with complex disabilities and this makes parents resort to keeping them at home because sending them to school and they are not being attended to as wasting time. 

ü  Supported the transition of 268 project beneficiaries (153 ,115M) children from kindergarten level 3(ECD upper class) into the primary level (elementary level 1) where among the graduands included 61 (34M,27F) children with different forms disabilities.

ü  APPCO promoted household health, feeding and nutrition by training 87 parents and 35 caregivers on establishment and management of kitchen gardens and with this training, 43 household established kitchen Gardens and 5 schools centers established kitchen gardens which got rolled out to a total of 87 households and 8 schools which improved both household and school nutrition feeding by having greens in the diet in every meal this reporting period.

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1.0. PROJECT SUMMARY:

In the period ending August 2023, through the girls hope education project APPCO participated in the support of seven schools with different project interventions.  Girl Education hope projectis an important aspect in nurturing these girls to pursue their goals in life, the girls hope education project being implemented by APPCO with support from GlobalGiving with a purpose of saving 6,800 vulnerable girls from dropping out of school through the provision of school basic needs.

APPCO this time has reached to a number of vulnerable girls and boys with a number of interventions including; capacity building of staff on GBV prevention and response, referral and advocacy, interactive learning sessions planned, peer to peer support sessions, school assessments and coordination meetings with district partners as detailed below.

Safe Spaces for Girls

APPCO has embraced using safe spaces model as an approach which creates a conducive environment for all survivors to speak up on issues affecting them and seek more Psychosocial support at household level.

GBV sexual abuse survivors shared their experiences freely, conducted group and individual counselling, promoted interactive sharing and they themselves developed plans for reporting and supporting their peers. this approach coupled with our girl model for the target group was helpful for girls and boys to engage in play and discuss meaningful thoughts towards ending the vice.

The play up our girl model in safe spaces was based on a Survivor centred approach which creates a supportive environment in which the survivor’s rights and wishes were respected, their safety ensured and treated with respect and dignity.

• GLOBAL_GIVING_REPORT_2023_AUG.docx (DOCX)