Information from Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development in 2019 reported that of 18-24year old-girls and women in Ugandan, one in three girls (35%) reported experiencing sexual violence during their childhoods. This included 11% of girls experiencing pressured or forced sex. Of Ugandans ages 13-17 years, one in four girls (25%) reported sexual violence in the past year in 2018.
Katika Child Africa is empowering women to become entrepreneurs. An initiative to plant eucalyptus trees as a source of future financial independence to improve their lives and those of their families.
An old grandmother lives with six grandchildren who were abandoned by their mothers due to the lack of child support from fathers. One of her sons (father) was arrested, imprisoned and the other died and she was left with the grand children alone in a rented house
Through Katika Child Africa “Empower Children, Youth and women in Urban Slums” (ECYWUS) project we have tried to respond to the problem of poverty especially among the disadvantaged slum children, youth and women, other problems are school drop outs, Increased rate of Crimes and Imprisonment of the bread winners in homes. However KCA can’t do much to solves all the problems in the community because the organisation is also limited by the resources to touch the lives of everyone in the community.
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DID YOU KNOW?
In Uganda, two-thirds of children drop out of school before completing their primary education? The major cause for this is poverty.
Uganda introduced Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997 to provide free primary education for children.
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Katika Child Africa is a charity nonprofit, child and youth-centered serving organization based in Uganda seeking to promote and empower wellbeing of young people with specific emphasis on Education &Literacy empowerment, Child protection, Health, Enhancement of gender equality and girl child support, Promotion of youth livelihood, developing leadership and talents among young people.
