By Violet Nakitende | Programme Officer - Kampala
Mirembe Case story
Mirembe is an 18 year old girl who used to work as a domestic worker in Kawempe. Mirembe dropped out of school in the year 2016 after seating for her primary leaving exams because her parents who are peasant farmers could not afford to further her studies in secondary school. Since she was not in school her brother asked for permission from her parents to bring her to Kampala so that he takes her to vocational school, unfortunately the brother lost his job and could not afford to take her to school as he had promised. So Mirembe resorted to doing domestic work for the brother and some of the neighbors. It’s from there that PLA identified her during a mapping process and enrolled her in school at Nile Vocational institute Jinja for 6 months where she got skills in hairdressing.
After the 6 months training Mirembe was later enrolled for internship for 3 months at a saloon where she continued to get more skills in hairdressing. She is currently working at a saloon in Bombo where she earns 30,000shs on weekly basis and more on a good day. Her dream is to open up her own saloon and she is working tirelessly towards achieving her dream. She has so far saved over 500,000shs, though she needs to save 3 million shillings in order to purchase all the items she needs to open up her own saloon.
Mirembe is very grateful the opportunity that was given to her by PLA and global giving because if it wasn’t for them she would still be stuck working as a domestic worker.
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