Globally, it is estimated that over 2 million girls give birth before they turn 15 each year. That is equal to 5,500 very young girls a day who go directly from childhood to motherhood. These teenage mothers are often out of school, married and exposed to several economic hardships that make their lives complicated and yet they have lives to take care of thereby making their children prone to malnutrition and in extreme cases death. Kasese District is not exceptional of these challenges.
It is against this background that Gender-Environment and Development Action launched a project called “Empowering teenage mothers with skills for self-reliance and improved livelihood” in Kasese Municipality.
The project will benefit 90 teenage mothers in the municipality of Kasese in the skills namely knitting, tailoring, and shoe making.
speaking at the launch the Managing Director GEDA Uganda promised and gave hope to the teenage mothers and told them GEDA Uganda will support them to realise their vison and goals, the teenage mothers group called Kidodo young mothers appreciated GEDA Uganda’s efforts to support.
GEDA Uganda donated one sewing machine and other training materials like scissors, clothes, etc to the group and promised to support even further
Details to come
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