MAKEXAFRICA was established in 2020 in Jinja, Uganda. Legally registered as a CBO, we are mandated to promote health and micro-entrepreneurship among adolescent girls and young women in Jinja city in Uganda. We directly engage slums, landing sites on the shores of Lake Victoria and River Nile, and other communities at the periphery of Jinja city where adolescent girls and young women battle with social and economic challenges of urban life but cannot access or afford streamlined services.
Our Objectives:
Promote access to health awareness on unplanned pregnancy, child-marriage, modern family planning, and nutrition to in-school and out-of-school adolescent girls and young women.
Promote hands-on micro-entrepreneurial skilling to out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in slums, landing sites, and other communities at the periphery of Jinja city.
Promote awareness about sexual and gender-based violence, and harmful cultural practices in slums, landing sites, and other communities in the periphery of Jinja city.
We do not provide handouts. We provide knowledge, information, and skills. We prioritize working with adolescent girls and young women who actively demonstrate that they are determined to improve their health and income. We promote health awareness based on feedback from adolescent girls and young women on their actual health challenges. We tailor our hands-on micro-entrepreneurial support to the real-life skills, knowledge, and information needs of the girls and women within their slums, landing-sites, and other peripheral communities in Jinja city.
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