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Empowering African girls and women for life Empowering African girls and women for life
A key concern of the African education sector today is ensuring that education programmes equip young Africans with the ideal combination of knowledge and practical skills for the transition to productive adult life. With the gross enrolment ratio in…

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Giving young women a second chance – the FAWE technical skills programme Giving young women a second chance – the FAWE technical skills programme
Education helps the most vulnerable people transform their lives. Twenty-four year old Estelle Bangura from Sierra Leone is living proof of this.

Bukomero Senior Secondary School, Uganda

Established 2009
  • 324 female students
  • 393 male students
  • 10 female  teachers
  • 24 male teachers

Challenges

  • Poverty
  • Rural, nomadic community

COE components

  • Gender-Responsive Pedagogy training for teachers
  • Tuseme youth empowerment programme
  • HIV/AIDS programme
  • Life skills training

Outcomes since creation

FAWE Uganda began to engage the school administration and management for transformation of Bukomero Senior Secondary School into a Centre of Excellence in February 2009. The intervention was positively received.  After the vision workshop, as a way of showing their commitment, the parents came together and formed small committees by sub-county to mobilise funds at community level to start the activities defined in the action plan for the school.

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