BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls Photo Gallery

Caroline

Caroline is an energetic young woman in Africa who has received special training from BRAC to become a poultry and livestock vaccinator. She is a type of Para-Vet who provides affordable timely services to her neighbors in the surrounding community where she lives and earns income through this work.

BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls

Teenage girl pulling out weeds from a vegetable garden. She irrigates the farm using a treadle pump which was financed by BRAC. The pump makes it possible for the girl to farm when rains fail and during the dry seasons thereby enhancing food security.

All Smiles

Full of smiles at the thought of possibly going to school, these teenage girls represent the eagerness of youth. They had just finished watching-from a distance-some older women conduct their weekly meeting.BRAC is offering similar services to girls in Uganda.

BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls

A BRAC village organization group leader addresses the group meeting. Similar groups will be formed for teenage girls under this program to enhance the girls' social awareness, confidence and build their social capital.

Ready for the Girls

Newly recruited staff for the Teenage Girls program in Uganda. They will be working with the 500 teenage girls to be provided with spaces, informal education and microloans by BRAC.

A Young Mother

A young mother smiles as she holds her child. BRAC provides a safe haven, informal education and micro loans to girls like these. Research has shown that an educated girl marries 4 years later and has 2.2 fewer children

BRAC Safe Spaces & Loans for Teenage Ugandan Girls

After undergoing income generation training, this young girl took a micro loan from BRAC and bought some egg-laying chickens. She now earns income from selling the eggs to her neighbors.

Girls do Shine!

Veronica, the first Ugandan employee hired as Administrative Assistant, promoted to Branch Manager and now Micro finance Trainer.

Girls are leaders

An adolescent development leader (right) leads a discussion at one of the first BRAC adolescent girls clubs established in Northern Uganda.

Dancing around

The girls from one of BRAC's adolescent girls clubs show Uganda country coordinator Arif Islam a traditional dance. Unfortunately, they couldn't get him to join in!