Housing & Education for AIDS orphaned girls
Summary
To provide education to orphaned & vulnerable children, providing them with the basic skills to become self-sufficient and escape child labor, prostitution, and death by poverty and AIDS.
How Donors Like You HelpedThanks to donors like you, a total of $17,239 was raised for this project. 
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Orphaned girls are especially vulnerable. Girls are often forced into relationships with older men, sometimes as second or third wives. Others become sex workers, having no other source of income with which to care for younger siblings. Practices such as female genital mutilation, polygamy, and early marriage are prevalent in Uganda. UMOP takes in three girls to every two boys believing that to educate and empower a girl will empower the nation.
Activities
The goal of the project is to build a girls dormitory. Currently, the girls are vulnerable due to the location of the school near an industrial site.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $17,239
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $17,239. The original project funding goal was $15,473.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Safe & healthy living conditions will help girls to: resist sexual exploitation, stay in school, build healthier families & communities, access to reproductive education, contraception, & AIDS education.
Project Message
"Everyday there is a funeral ... and children left behind with no one to care for them. As a priest, they call me Father. How can I sleep at night if I don't try my best to look after these children."
- Father Centurio Olaboro, Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Fr. Centurio Olaboro,
Director
PO Box 714
Tororo,
Uganda
+256 4545199
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
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The River Fund 11155 Roseland Road, Unit 16 Sebastian, Florida 32958 United States 772 589-5076 http://www.riverfund.org |
Learn more about The River Fund and the project team.
The River Fund's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Uganda
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 31, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.
Latest Update from the Field
Girls housing!
By Jaya Canterbury-Counts - Project Sponsor, August 28, 2007 05:13 PM
One hundred and eighteen girls are now living in the new dormitory! They have a bath and toilet block nearby that includes running water and flushing toilets! The cement factory is still across the road but the girls are more secure and safe now. Everyone is so grateful for the generosity of all the donors who have made this possible.
Thank you.
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