Promoting quality education
Ensuring that all girls and young women receive quality education is a human right, however, everyday girls are faced with barriers that hinder their attainment of education which are caused by poverty, negative cultural norms and practices (i.e., child marriages), faced with violence and fragility.
The negative cultural norms and practices have continued to foster a burden particularly on the girl child. Early child marriages and teenage pregnancies have resulted into keeping girls out of school. Today in Uganda one in nine girls are married before their 15th birthday. Girls who marry young are much more likely to drop out of school, complete fewer years of education than their peers who marry later.
Education attainment however, proves to be fundamental in the fight against poverty since it fosters self-reliance of individuals to have gainful employment opportunities. It empowers both girls and boys to participate in decision making to build a better future for themselves and the communities.
Kaleke Kasome Foundation embraces the right to education through creating structures that can ensure gender equality especially by empowering the girl child. KAKAF is determined to achieve this objective through facilitating avenues to help the underprivileged girls and young women in the rural areas.
Objective:
To promote and provide literacy basics in reading and writing skills for all children
Scholarships & Skills Development
In Uganda, an area of economic poverty, it’s evident that a big percentage of girls today are dropping out of school each year due to financial constrains, that most of them are failing to meet the school basic requirements and fees.
Your donations make a difference by bridging the gap of education and skills development by keeping more girls in school to learn, because at KAKAF we believe that girls are more at risk of defilement with all it’s related effects on the child, if they are out of school.
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