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  • The alternative learning experience for children during lock down through football talent development

    Kabuye Ronald

    January 10, 2022 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Wakiso

    Kick-off soccer academy provides young people with mentorship, education, and talent development. It was created by a group of young friends during the COVID-19 pandemic after they noticed many young people getting into drugs and alcohol while out of school during pandemic-related shutdowns. The team, who mobilizes parents and caretakers so that they buy into the program’s benefits, serves almost 100 young people. The program develops the athletic skills of the young people but also increases their self-esteem and responsibility.

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  • Sex workers in Uganda rally to end spread of HIV through condom distribution and sensitization

    Kabuye Ronald

    November 24, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The WOMAN ORGANISATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY (WONETHA) provides free condoms to sex workers in Uganda to end the spread of HIV. The group distributes about four to five million condoms to regional centers. Everyone can access the free condoms simply by request, without facing stigma or discrimination. The group also carries out “sensitization” campaigns that teach sex workers how to practice safe sex and feel empowered to require condom use among clients. They also work with health care systems to address discrimination and social stigmas that sex workers often face when seeking health care.

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  • How single mothers in the remote areas of Kibuku district have been Financial empowered through Mushroom growing

    Kabuye Ronald

    October 26, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kibuku

    A church in Uganda teaches single mothers and widows to grow mushrooms to increase their household incomes. They keep the mushrooms to use at home, sell them outright, and use them to create other food products like biscuits and soup powder to sell.

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