Girls Alive Uganda

Girls Alive Uganda is a registered non-government entity founded by Marion Apio, Susan Mutoni and Susan Hilda Lokolimoe, who are MasterCard Foundation Scholars at Makerere University, passionate about social transformation in Uganda.We are an operational NGO, we plan and carry out boots-on-the-ground projects to accomplish our objectives. This requires a great deal of careful planning, communication, and local involvement for each project.

It is currently operating in Kisoko High School, Tororo district but hopes to reach out to more girls in several regions across Uganda. As a team, we are looking forward to creating a circle of socially responsible girls who through mentorship and follow up shall become ambassadors spearheading change in their communities, as we enhance creativity so as to increase gender equity in Uganda and Africa at large. In its scope of work, it makes, trains and mentors’ young girls in and out of school with knowledge of making reusable sanitary towels using locally available materials that can easily be accessed.

Our goal is to accomplish the following:

• To restore women and girl’s dignity through provision of hygienic and cost effective reusable sanitary pads.
• To be the center of training and research so as to empower the vulnerable girls in Uganda.
• To educate the vulnerable girls on menstrual hygiene and management.
• Girl child education regardless of their economic background.