Women Empowerment Programs

Our women empowerment program focuses on Teenage mothers, Widows, Women infected with HIV, Girl children.

Women and girls are classified among the vulnerable group. Their vulnerability is caused by factors such as unequal access to education, high poverty rates, unpaid domestic work, and persistent gender stereotypes among others. Women face challenges of poverty which is attributed to factors such as lack of power, material resources, Illiteracy, traditions, and norms that hinder their development. The norms and traditions in place are patriarchal in nature which gives more value to the male gender as compared to the female. When it comes to inheritance, oftentimes, properties are left out to males to the disadvantage of females.

This stretches to HIV/AIDS-affected households as recent studies reveal that about 40 percent of widows and orphans are victims of this practice following the death of a spouse/parent. It is no surprise that only about 16 percent of Ugandan women own land in their own right, withstanding the fact that the laws in place grant men and women equal rights to land and other property regardless of their marital status. Most women, especially in rural areas, are linked to the private sphere dominated by unpaid work such as the continuous responsibility over domestic work, like caring for children and animals. Additionally, women also lack control over income sometimes even in cases when they provide the labor that generates the income as the men have taken over whenever it is at the point of harvesting or selling. The fate of teenage mothers is an area of concern. These young mothers experience many physical, psychological, mental, and social challenges such as depression, and drug and alcohol abuse which at most times is caused by the absent and irresponsible parents of the children and the scorching economy. Our women empowerment program focuses on Teenage mothers, Widows, Women infected with HIV, Girl children.