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Women and Girls Rights Advocacy Uganda

WAGRAU Educates and Empowers Women and Girls to demand their legal HUMAN RIGHTS, while supporting them with the POWER of pro bono Legal Representation.

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Women and Girls Rights Advocacy Uganda - Equality & Justice

Women and Girls Rights Advocacy Uganda

WAGRAU Educates and Empowers Women and Girls to demand their legal HUMAN RIGHTS, while supporting them with the POWER of pro bono Legal Representation.

Giving Opportunities

FACT.

30% of Ugandan women experience “LAND GRABBING” where their rightful land is taken from them by force.* In a country where 50% of the population support themselves through subsistence farming, this is life threatening. *International Justice Mission

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FACT.

Girl Marriage: 34-40% of Ugandan girls are married before age 18*, many of whom are FORCED for their “Bride Price”, this in a country where the legal age for marriage is now 18.

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Pro-Bono Legal Representation

PRO-BONO Legal Representation

Marginalized Women and Girls in Uganda cannot afford Legal Representation.
Laws protecting women in Uganda are quite progressive, however rarely are they applied since few can afford it.

WAGRAU provides PRO-BONO representation, consultation and mediation to vulnerable women and girls in Uganda.

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WAGRAU - Short Term Emergency Safe Housing

Short Term Emergency Safe Housing

Women and Girls in CRISIS in remote villages have nowhere to go to receive protective care and legal advice. WAGRAU provides short term EMERGENCY safe housing, consultation, mediation and if necessary - representation.

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WAGRAU Community Advocacy

Community Advocacy

In remote villages, ancient cultural and social norms often RULE the local communities including: girl marriage, forced marriage, devaluing the education of girls, theft shame surrounding menstruation, rape and domestic abuse.

WAGRAU conducts outreach workshops and awareness gatherings alongside community leaders to inform the community about Women and Girls’ RIGHTS and Ugandan LAW.

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WAGRAU Skills & Business Training

Skills & Business Training

Only 35% of Ugandan girls make it through Primary School and lack BASIC SKILLS to support themselves and their families. The majority of Ugandans live below the international poverty line with income of less than $1.69 per day.

WAGRAU provides women in crisis SKILLS and Business Training.

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Stories

Circle of Life - Help Women in Uganda

The Circle of Life for Women in Uganda

October 27, 2022
These images depict an evening of a teenage mother's life regardless of if she is...
Help Ugandan Child Brides and Mothers

Why Building Together Is So Important

October 24, 2022
As seen in some of the pictures below, we train under various tree shades shifting...
The Girls together with staff members take turns fetching water from the stream, digging out an Anti-hill, mixing up the clay with our feet to make bricks for the construction of a study shade.

Building Together

October 4, 2022
The Girls together with staff members take turns fetching water from the stream, digging out...

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You have the ability to GIVE a woman the POWER to stand up for herself. We will be your boots on the ground providing free legal representation to marginalized women and girls, and giving them the tools they need to claim HUMAN RIGHTS for themselves.

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