Defying early pregnancy: Bako’s return to school
From loans to classroom This short documentary follows Bako Hikima as she rebuilds an education path closed by early pregnancy and abandonment. Through EKN’s Protect SRHR project implementation in Midigo Town council, Yumbe district, peer-led Girl Shine Groups connected sexual rights learning to practical savings and a small trade loan. The result: daily market work, […]
Baking hope: How our training helped a refugee thrive
From displacement to daily bread Henry Francis Banda, a registered urban South Sudanese refugee living in Uganda’s capital Kampala, knows firsthand the struggle of making ends meet. Like many urban refugees in Uganda, his family of three faced an immense challenge of integrating into a foreign community; Challenges such as accessing basic necessities and a […]
Real impact; Yumaru Aurelia’s SRHR journey
Empowered life; Yumaru Aurelia’s SRHR journey Yumaru thought her life had ended in the wreckage of poverty and negative tradition in Terego district, West Nile sub region. Living in the country’s second poorest region, life never offered Yumaru any roses. toil and sexual exploitation characterized her 24 years of life. And trapped in a tradition […]
Empowering Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in West Nile
JP Management is implementing the economic empowerment component of the PROTECT SRHR Project in Maracha, Yumbe, Koboko, and Terego districts. Funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN), this initiative aligns with the Netherlands global health strategy and Uganda’s sustainable development goals, focusing on enhancing access to sexual reproductive health services. Led […]
