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Statistics

Busoga region, where Jinja is located, has an approximamted 5.7% fertility rate, 41.4 infant mortality for under 5. 83.8% of people moving up to 3 kilometers to nearest health center, poverty at 14%, teenage child bearing at 36%, and 29% of households are headed by women.

Literacy of persons aged 10 years and above is 67.4%

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Tackling Gender-Based Violence | Child-Marriage | Harmful Cultural Norms

We bring adolescent girls and young women into village-based interactive camps in Jinja Uganda where they gain awareness about gender based violence, early marriage, and harmful cultural practices. We equip them with skills on how to detect, prevent, and report these injustices, and how to provide peer-support to each other through their village groups.

Promoting Self-Service Family Planning | Home-Based Nutrition | Safe-Water, Hygiene and Sanitation

We promote access to condoms, pills, and self-injection family planning options among adolescent girls and young women in Jinja Uganda. We also promote access to save drinking water, proper hygiene, sanitation, especially among lactating and pregnant young women.

Rights-Awareness | Advocating for Justice against Perpetrators | Promoting access to Legal Aid & Psycho-Social Support

We promote health rights awareness, advocate for justice against abusers of health rights, promote access to legal aid service, and promote psycho-social support for adolescent girls and young women in Jinja Uganda.