Each year, Gufasha Girls Foundation through sports brings communities together to raise awareness, amplify the voices of adolescent girls and strengthen their capacity to stand against child marriage as well as to improve community response towards ending child marriage in Uganda
Gufasha Girls Foundation is a commitment maker of the GBV Action Coalition under the UN Women Generation Equality Forum which gave us a privilege to attend side events organized by Generation Equality Forum and addressed by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous who urged donors and donor organizations to provide youth-friendly support and funding to grassroots organizations that are championing the gender equality agenda.
On the 11th October 2022, Gufasha Girls Foundation launched The #ReturnMyFuture campaign with the aim of calling upon World leaders to deliver the commitments and promises made towards ending child marriage and ensuring that no girl is left behind, mobilizing families and communities, including health care providers, police, religious and traditional leaders as allies for gender equality
According to UNESCO, 129 million girls are out of school with 50 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa. In Africa, girls face barriers to education of which these barriers are both economic and cultural, and they have a profound impact on the educational opportunities available to girls. In some cases, these barriers can be so severe that girls are unable to access education at all
