Giving Digest: The Ug Love Movement, led by renowned Women's Rights Activist Angella Asiimwe, is an annual charity campaign dedicated to supporting teen mothers and orphans in Uganda. For the past three years, the movement has spread love through various communities by providing essential services such as access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), legal aid, vocational skills, and other valuable contributions.
The Movement, now in its 3rd Edition, aims to empower teenage mothers and orphans in Uganda. In response to a video clip circulating on social media showing girls in the Busoga region making makeshift sanitary towels out of soil and rugs, the Ug Love Movement saw an opportunity to make a difference. On Easter Monday, a team from the movement traveled to Luuk District, Eastern Uganda for a mega outreach event called Easter Teen Mom Charity: Building Sustainable Livelihoods.
Thanks to the generosity of individuals who have donated their time and resources, 204 teenage mothers and community leaders were able to gain vocational skills in areas such as hairdressing, human rights education, menstrual health, and self-care practices. At the same outreach, items like clothes, soap and reusable sanitary pads were donated. This initiative aims to help create sustainable livelihoods for these vulnerable groups of women to tackle everyday challenges such as period poverty and issues arising from misconceptions of sexual and reproductive health rights.
While strides are being taken in menstrual justice and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), challenges persist regarding menstrual poverty and SRHR in Uganda and numerous communities throughout Africa. The commendable efforts of the Ug Love Movement to tackle these issues are both heroic and praiseworthy.
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