AMINA’S RESILIENT RISE!

At 13, she was beaten, banished, and left to raise twins alone. Today, she’s a legal professional and an advocate for protecting girls. This is Amina’s journey of survival, defiance, and hope. The late-afternoon sun in Bukanga, Luuka, throws long shadows across the yard where Amina sits on a three-legged-stool, her voice steady as she advises her grandfather on a land dispute. It’s hard to imagine this calm, confident woman was once a terrified teenager, pregnant, cast out of her home, and with her future crumbling before her eyes. Read more:

HYPOCRISY SURROUNDING TEENAGE-PREGNANCY AND CHILD-MARRIAGE IN UGANDA

modus-operandi in which the menace of teenage-pregnancy and child-marriage are dealt with in Uganda may tempt one to think that the perpetrators of these heinous crimes are a species of unknown aliens from a faraway planet, impossible to trace. Yet, the creatures who are defiling, molesting, raping, and abusing underage-girls in Uganda are from the human species, known, not only to their victims, but in the communities where the victims live, and sometimes to the authorities in those communities. So then, why does it seem difficult to bring all these non-alien perpetrators of teenage pregnancy and child marriage in Uganda to full-justice?