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Aware Uganda - Touching Hearts in East London, with the Fawcett Society

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"I think people felt very lucky to hear from Teddy, first hand, of her experiences with AWARE Uganda."

Hannah Philp, Founding Director at The East London Fawcett Group.

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Uganda: Kaabong Women Focus on Peace & Health - Amidst Rape and Gun Violence

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Threats to peace, health, and security present a constant struggle for Kaabong women.

Alice Merilkol is HIV Positive, with four children. Just after Christmas, her husband was shot...

Last year, two girls were raped and abused at 13 and 16 years of age. The 13-year-old girl became pregnant and now has a baby boy...

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First Lady of Uganda Visits AWARE Uganda in Kaabong

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On the 2nd February 2012, the First Lady of Uganda visited AWARE Uganda - Safe World Field Partner - and officially opened the new Maternity Waiting House, as well as promising free education for all children going to the Kaabong Senior Secondary School.

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Uganda: Introducing Family Planning to the Women of Karamoja

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In Karamoja, contraceptive prevalence is very low; family planning service provision has been almost non-existent, and on-going violence and insecurity makes providing services difficult.

Many thousands of women in the region have not heard of family planning and face huge cultural barriers to controlling their own fertility.

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Women's Health and Livelihood in Kaabong

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Update from AWARE Uganda - Safe World Field Partner in Kaabong, Karamoja:

In recent months, AWARE-Uganda continued HIV/AIDS counseling and seminars amongst the community; the result is that this has encouraged more positive living and changed attitudes towards HIV/AIDs victims...

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Changing Attitudes & Creating Security for Women in Kaabong

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AWARE Uganda continues to bring many improvements for the women of Karamoja.

AWARE provides HIV/AIDS counseling and seminars and this has encouraged more positive living and changed attitudes towards HIV/AIDS victims.

Many more have come out and declared their status and the community has accepted them.

AWARE's Human Rights Programme continued by sensitizing the community on women and human rights.

More domestic violence has been reported to the authorities as a result.

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AWARE Uganda

Location and Team

AWARE UGANDA (Action for women and Awakening in Rural Environment) was formed in 1989 by a group of local rural women of Kaabong District in Karamoja region, a semi-desert region in the North East of Uganda, bordering South Sudan and Kenya. Read more.

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Contact Us

Mrs Grace Loumo,
Coordinator AWARE-Uganda,
PO Box 9344,
Kampala,
Uganda

Tel: +256 772 516 458
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Chris Crowstaff Visits AWARE Uganda

Visiting women & Children in Rural Uganda

I asked an elderly widow what changes she had seen in her lifetime: "None." She replied. "I'm still gathering leaves to eat. My roof still leaks." - 100 years…

The Children of Kaabong

'My first impressions were of a dry semi arid desert with little or no vegetation as far as the eye could see. The Ugandan army were ever-present, in an effort…

Women in Uganda

Women in Uganda

In Uganda women face a wide range of challenges including discrimination, low social status, lack of economic self sufficiency, and greater risk of HIV/AIDS infection.

More than 27 million out of a population of 32 million people live in rural Uganda, the majority of whom have not been shielded from the harsh realities of poverty.

Lack of access to water and sanitation is already exposing rural women…

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