GIRL ARISE PROGRAM

13.5 million girls EVERY YEAR

are forced into marriage before the age of 18.

Did you know that 50% of girls in Africa are sexually enslaved, out of school, and grossly enslaved by poverty, HIV and AIDS, and violence.

25 percent of Ugandan teenagers become pregnant by the age of 19. Close to half are married before their 18th birthday.

Across Africa, girls still face huge challenges with getting a quality education with over 9.5 million girls within sub-Saharan Africa unable to acquire formal classroom education

Education is the BEST way out of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion for the underprivledged rural girls.

Yet access to secondary education is low in Uganda. Only one-fifth of adolescents are enrolled in secondary school.

A girl without an education is also less likely to send her own children to school, creating a vicious cycle of inequality.

THROUGH THE GIRL ARISE PROGRAM (GAP)

We are empowering underprivileged rural girls in Nebbi, Uganda through:

Education Sponsorship

Ensuring more young underpriviledged rural girls are attending and completing school. 80% of our education sponsorship program targets girls.

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Educating young girls and boys about their sexuality, understanding their rights, menstrual cycle and hygiene, and the dangers of early pregnancies and STIs.

Hands-on and Entrepreneural Skills

Equipping more rural underprivileged girls with hands-on and entrepreneurial skills for livelihood.

Menstrual Hygiene

HELP US END PERIOD POVERTY FOR SCHOOL-GOING RURAL GIRLS IN UGANDA

What if you had to miss school or work because you did not have proper menstrual supplies? How many days per year would you lose in education simply because you got your period? What if no one ever taught you about menstruation, or worse: if menstrual taboos and myths made you feel ashamed of your body? This is the situation for more than 500 million women, and girls around the world. This is Period Poverty!

PERIOD POVERTY

Did you know that more than 500 million women, and girls worldwide do not have what they need to manage their periods?

Unfortunately, for rural girls in the communities we serve in Nebbi (Uganda), this has implied missing up to eight days of school every term. The extreme side has been that up to 30% of rural girls leave school because of poor or lack of access to sanitary products.

Proper menstrual health management is a universal human right, a critical component of gender equity and vital to women and girls reaching their full potential.

Edu Child Foundation Uganda advances menstrual equity, health, dignity and opportunity for for the school-going rural girls in Nebbi (Uganda). This we do by providing holistic menstrual health education, increasing access to menstrual products, training girls how to make their own reusable sanitary products, and advancing global menstrual equity through partnerships with governments and health coalitions.