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Daily Monitor
Friday May 07 2021
Teenage mothers with their babies in Teobia Village, Kole District, on November 16 last year. Thousands of school girls across the country will not return to school after getting pregnant or married during the Covid-19 lockdown. PHOTO | FILE
Summary
Child rights organizations including; Terre des Hommes Netherlands, FEMNET, and Plan International are at the forefront of empowering the said girl children.
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Girls from seven districts have been selected to participate in a five-year women’s empowerment programme that aims at grooming them for leadership.
The girls have been chosen from Moroto, Napak, Kampala, Iganga, Kamuli, Bugiri and Buyende districts to join the $500,000 (about Shs1.7b) She Leads programme that is being funded by the Dutch Embassy.