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The Circle of Life for Women in Uganda
These images depict an evening of a teenage mother's life regardless of if she is married or not. It is a life we are raised to do from childhood and the only difference now is that their babies have to come along because there is nobody to babysit them later on a feeding bottle or formula to be left behind. If one is 'lucky', then their first born daughter of 3-5 years, whom they most likely gave birth to at 13 years of age, or younger sister can tag along for two reasons, one to help carry the baby as...
Why Building Together Is So Important
As seen in some of the pictures below, we train under various tree shades shifting by the direction of the tree shade. We stay near the road and so all the dust from the passing cars and motorcycles is inhaled by us but most importantly by the babies that are as young as one month old that the young skilling mothers come with. The babies are asleep beside their mothers because we don't have a nursery or the capability to rent one. Secondly, we run the very first and only abuse shelter where in we mostly have teenage mothers who...
Building Together
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.
Class of 2022
Class of 2021/2022 that will be graduating in November 2022.
Graduation 2021
Young women and their parents/guardians celebrating at our very first graduation that happened in October, 2021.
The Realities of Period Poverty: How Menstruation Deprives Women and Girls the Opportunity to Strive
No woman or girl should be held back by menstrual periods. Availability of sanitary towels and hygienic safe spaces in which to use them, the right to manage menstruation without shame or stigma MUST be a given for anyone who menstruates. Yet for many, this is too far from being their reality. The subject of menstruation is taken as a taboo with many negative cultural attributes associated with it, including the idea that menstruating women and girls are 'contaminated’, ‘dirty’ and ‘impure’ and for some the onset of periods means the girl is ready for marriage. Period poverty is not just a potential health...