Empower Child Domestic Workers Through Education

Platform for labour Action continues to provide support to 26 girls with school lunch, scholastic materials and physiological support in all aspects of their lives, this with support from GlobalGiving. The beneficiaries go to government owned schools whose funding for school fees mainly comes from the Ugandan government, the schools that the girls go include: Elia Olet primary school, Lira Modern primary school, Lira police primary school, Lira primary school, Ojwina primary school, Starch Factory primary school, Lango Quran primary school, King James primary school, Railways primary school, Adyel primary school, Canon Lawrence primary school, Lira Parents’ primary school and Sir Samuel Joe nursery and primary school

This project has made a difference in the lives of so many girls in northern Uganda with access to education that has in turn built their self-esteem and performance through the continuous counseling and monitoring from Platform for Labour Action.

SCHOOL MONITORING VISITS
19 school monitoring visits were this quarter made to PLA beneficiaries. The girls were visited in their different schools of Lira parents, Lira Police primary school, Lango Quran primary school, Sir Samuel Joe primary school, Adyel primary school, railways primary school and Lira modern primary school among others.

The Girls have been at their good behavior and continue to perform to their best though they still face a challenges with some of their guardians not supporting their education, a case in point is Egwel who aunty attempt to take her scholastic materials and give them to her biological daughter, we were able to talk to the guardian who denied the all the allegations but agreed to continue supporting Lydia.
GIRL GETS FULL SCHOLARSHIP
One of the girls Morine managed to get full scholarship from King James secondary school. Morine will study at King James Secondary school Lira freely in the boarding section all fully sponsored for by the director of the school. After the primary seven vacation Morine had to more on to the next level of education, but lacked funding and because of this, her guardians’ only option left was to marry her off at an early age of 15years. This provoked us to try many more alternatives for Morine’s secondary education.

Early marriage is becoming common in northern Uganda especially when parents and guardians fail to cater for the children in school and also when they have so many children that they can not take care of, its looked as a way of making money for the rest of the other family members.
Morine is now happy at her new school in senior one.

COUNSELING
ALL the current PLA beneficiaries were this quarter counseled and talked to by PLA staff and especially PLA program Assistant and the administrative volunteer who was once PLA’s school beneficiary, He has also been sharing his experiences as a beneficiary of the project and what he did to make him successful today.

The girls have been encouraged to study hard because then it’s easy to get for them support for especially the different schools in Lira who especially provide support based on a student’s performance in either class or sports.

CALL FOR MORE SUPPORT
Many girls are still out forced to marry at an early age, forced to work beyond their means, because there is no one to support for further education, some of the girls continue to visit the office of Platform for Labour action to get into the program, but Limited support is provided hence not all of them can benefit from it.

I therefore call all the well wishes to support these girls’s education; it will make their better future.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES
PLA will continue to support the girls in providing them with physiological support, scholastic materials and school lunch. Monitoring visits to both the schools and homes will be carried out to analyze the progress of the girls in their performance at home and at school; this will ascertain what more support the girls will need.

More girls are going to be identified and introduced to the project to with the support from Global Giving donors and well wishers.