Our primary work is to advocate against child marriage and promote girls’ education. We strive to ensure that all girls in Uganda can stay in school, stay healthy and have the futures they dream of.
We have a wide range of programs geared at ending child marriage, promoting sexual and reproductive health education, menstrual health and hygiene management and gender equality among others.
Child marriage is painfully a global problem that happens across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities. Work with us to understand the scale of the problem and what is being done to end it in Uganda.
Gufasha Girls Foundation is a non-profit community based organization whose primary work is to advocate against child marriage and promote girls’ education.
YEARS OF CARE
In 2012,Joan lost her bestfriend (Gufasha Moureen) who was forced into child marriage at the age of 13 to a 62 year old man. Moureen lost her life at childbirth being too young to give birth and never recieved fast medical care.
On realizing that Child Marriage was continously practised in her community and kept on robbing childhoods and futures of adolescent girls,Joan founded Gufasha Girls Foundation in memory of Moureen and started advocating against Child Marriage to challenge negative social and cultural norms by creating awareness in her community about the dangers of child marriage and importance of girls’ education.
Her dream is to see every girl in school,educated and empowered to make better decisions for their lives and become important people in the World.
We are committed to reaching the most vulnerable girl children to change their lives, give them hope and build a generation of empowered girls and women.
Child marriage is a form of gender-based violence and a violation of Human rights yet globally 12 million girls are married off before the age of 18 years, meaning 23 girls are married off every minute and nearly 1 in 2 seconds.
Education is not only a fundamental Human right but also a potent tool in the fight against Child marriage. Through scholarships and providing scholastic materials , we support education of less privileged girls
Thousands of girls in the rural areas of Kayunga district have little or incomplete knowledge and are not prepared and aware of menstruation, lack access to sanitary pads or unable to afford them.
In an effort to respond to and address the rising numbers of child marriages in Uganda, Gufasha Girls Foundation is organizing the Gufasha Girls Annual Gala on 6th October 2023,
an event that will bring together a number of leaders, youths, adolescent girls,activists and victims of child marriage and teenage pregnancy with the aim of sensitizing and creating massive awareness and strengthening the capacity of adolescent girls to stand against child marriage and to improve community response toward ending child marriage in Uganda.
Gufasha Girls Annual Gala will provide a platform for adolescent girls to raise and amplify their voices as well as bring different stakeholders together to join efforts to end the practice.
The event contributes to the government’s mandate and commitment to promoting the rights of children and zero tolerance for the evil of child marriage thus contributing to the achievement of national, regional, and Global goals like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and The National Development Plan.
Contact us for sponsorships or partnerships at info@gufashagirls.org or +256- 752 356 682