"Arise and Overcome"

Let The Girl Be Uganda (LEGIBE), founded in May, 2022 is an organisation aiming to empower vulnerable girls in Mukono District around the shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda through education and health. Girls around the shores of Lake Victoria are often left vulnerable, exposed to STIs and HIV, and are sometimes pregnant. LEGIBE strives to protect Mukono District girls from sexual and labor exploitation. 

Our project area covers two Sub-Counties with a population of 5,000 girls and teenage mothers who are largely vulnerable, destitute and socially underprivileged. Only a few of these can access education and health facilities. Most of these girls' lives are associated with atrocities from sexual abuse, rape, family rejection, poverty, domestic violence, neglect, etc.

Our community suffers a scarcity of water for domestic use, leaving girls to fetch it from distant, unsafe wells dug in forests and bushy places where many of them fall victim to rape. Most families in our community still follow the old traditional and cultural customs that require only girls to do house chores like gardening, fetching water and firewood, and taking care of young children. 

Let The Girl Be Uganda, strives to address these problems through skills focused education, health services, and mobilizing and creating awareness campaigns in communities, for the well-being of girls and teenage mothers. We are a certified and registered non-profit organisation, number 161885428. 

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Best regards, David Kawanuka 

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