By McKenzie Gray | GlobeMed Director of Individual Giving
Greetings from GlobeMed! We hope you’ve had a pleasant and sunny summer!
GW GlobeMed’s annual GROW (Grassroots On-site Work Internship) team has been busy. This summer five GlobeMed members traveled to Kampala, Uganda to work with our partner, Set Her Free. While there, the GROW team aided in administering and inputting data from a baseline survey given to nearly 1,000 secondary school girls in the Rakai district aimed at assessing the girls’ prior knowledge of reproductive health. This baseline survey is part of Set Her Free’s Pad Program to ensure that not only the girls at this rural school have access to sanitary products, but also access to sexual and reproductive health education. The GROW team also supported Set Her Free’s work with this program by travelling to the Rakai school to help with the annual pad distribution, reproductive health workshops, and HIV testing that are now essential aspects of this program partly thanks to funding from US Embassy and PEPFAR grants.
In addition to their work with the pad distribution program, the GROW team aided with capacity building by collecting media and conducting interviews with the staff and the girls participating in Set Her Free programs. Not only did this allow the GROW team to learn more about the work that Set Her Free does, but also to increase Set Her Free’s media and fundraising capacity.
Set Her Free is also progressing with its tailoring program. The tailoring center staff along with the GROW team recently set up a contract with a school on Bethany Island neat Kampala to sew their students’ uniforms.
With the help of generous donors such as you, Set Her Free continues to expand its impact and make Set Her Free staff’s innovative ideas for change a reality.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
GlobeMed at GW
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