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Aretho Cecilia and Lojo Apakwayo’s home is among over 224 homesteads in Karamoja, in northeastern Uganda, that USAID Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition Activity has reached with information on the benefits of harmoniously sharing family resources, such as goats. The USAID activity emphasizes the need for women to share resources as a way to combat gender-based violence. By encouraging elders to influence men to let their wives to keep at least one goat at home so that children can have milk to drink - instead of men owning all resources - the activity has empowered women to help themselves and their families.
The three-year activity, implemented by Freedom House, will facilitate participation of women, youth, children, and other vulnerable populations in accessing justice through legal aid, providing referrals for psycho-social support, and strengthening local civil society groups to advocate for human rights in Uganda. USAID/RAJA aims to help members of vulnerable population groups who are victims of human rights abuses access justice, protection, and referral services
“I got married so young with no knowledge of raising healthy children,” says Sharon, a 27-year-old from Budaka district. “My children were sickly and malnourished.” She has six children between the ages of 9 years and 5 months, all of whom struggled with diarrhea, malaria, and malnourishment.
Twenty-seven-year-old Morris Ojok is an enterprising young man from Akalo village in Lira district. After graduating with an Agricultural certificate from Kaberamaido Technical Institute, Ojok needed a job to earn an income. Sadly, in his village, just like many other rural communities, there were few possibilities to obtain formal employment.
Forty-nine-year old Sylvia Nadengo, a farmer and mother of nine, lives in Mpudde village in eastern Uganda’s Buyende district. She has taken on the role of championing improved sanitation in her community by forming a sanitation committee to construct improved toilets.
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