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Two Girls in Uganda: Stepping Up by Speaking Out
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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet.” We should all try to follow this saying, since I know we will succeed, with time.
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Taking the Stigma Out of Menstruation in Uganda One Girl at a Time
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Learning about how her body works helped this Ugandan student feel emboldened.
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Teen to Headmaster: Girls Need Their Own Textbooks
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In this student’s school, girls have to share textbooks while boys get their own.
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‘Queen of Katwe’ More Than Entertainment for Ugandan Girls
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For these girls in Uganda, seeing Disney’s “Queen of Katwe” was a remarkable experience filled with many firsts, including traffic jams, elevators and seeing one of their own rise to international stardom.
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Poverty and Death Strike Child Bride in Uganda
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The community helped Babirye pay for her child’s funeral but it didn’t intervene three years earlier when she was a bride at 13.
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Laws Too Little, Too Late to Save Ugandan Girl From Rape
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Despite her community’s belief to the contrary, “divorce does not cause rape, rapists cause rape,” writes Ugandan teen Moureen Kisakye.
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The Day My 6-Year-Old Sister Was Beheaded in Uganda
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It’s not unusual for 6-year-old girls to run errands after dark in Uganda. But that doesn’t make it right.
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Ugandan Teen Urges Against Using Girls for Dowry
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(WOMENSENEWS)–My sister Maureen Prisca was forced to marry an old man who was infected with HIV. She was 17 years old and the man was 42. My parents forced my sister to marry the man because he was very wealthy and could pay a large dowry. A dowry is money or things like cattle or land given to a girl’s parents when she marries a man. My sister refused to marry the man but my parents insisted.
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Ugandan Girls Dying from Unsafe Abortions
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Nearly a quarter of the maternal deaths in Uganda are caused by unsafe abortions, in contrast with 13 percent globally, according to the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre. Teen writer Rebecca Tulibasika doesn’t want to go to anymore funerals caused by this practice.
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HIV is Personal for Girls in Uganda
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Every week, 570 young women aged 15 to 24 get infected with HIV in Uganda, according to a 2011 survey by the country’s Ministry of Health. Here, Maureeen Amenya tells the story of one of these young people.