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First Lady of Uganda Visits AWARE Uganda in Kaabong

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First Lady of Uganda Visits AWARE Uganda in Kaabong

On the 2nd February 2012, the First Lady of Uganda - Janet Museveni - visited AWARE women's centre in Kaabong.

The First Lady - who is also the Minister of Karamoja Affairs - officially opened our new Maternity Waiting House in Kaabong and promised free education for all children going to Kaabong Senior Secondary School.

She was also shown some of the AWARE projects supported by Hauirou Commission, PACE, Global Human Rights, Water Earth Alliance, German Embassy, Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), 

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)

First-Lady-3Janet Museveni with Grace Loumo, founder of AWARE Uganda, outside the new Maternity Waiting House in Kaabong.

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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.

Map of Kaabong

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

Tel: +256 772 516 458
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