A three-pronged project entitled "Women of Value" meet the educational, vocational, and personal health challenges of 2,700 vulnerable and disadvantaged adolescent girls and women in Kasese District of Uganda (500 school-aged girls to receive school supplies, 200 girls and women to acquire hairdressing skills, and 2,000 girls to learn to make sanitary pads. The vulnerable school going girls(2500 girls), 200 out of school girls , and young women are the project beneficiaries
For every 94% girl children who attend primary one, only 32% reach primary seven, according to Kasese District's Senior Probation and Social Welfare Officer. Three-quarters of the children who start primary education never make it to secondary level. A primary cause of the high dropout rate among girls is early and forced child marriage. Kasese District has one of the highest rates of child marriage in Uganda. Child marriage considered a human rights violation
The project beneficiaries will be supplied with school materials that will keep them in school. The tailoring skills will cause sustainability of the project. The sanitary pads will have girls stay in school
1.Girls who participate in the project will stay in school and avoid early marriage. 2. Girls and women who learn hairdressing skills in the project will be able to generate income to support themselves and their families and will become more self-reliant and less vulnerable. 3. Girls learning to make sanitary pads will have to make pads available for themselves hence delaying sexual relationships that have resulted into early pregnancies hence dropping out of school.
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