- ACTIVE PROJECTS
Empower Her to Speak! SRHR Knowledge and Period Diary
Date:
May 31st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026
Funded by: Girl Rising
A structured initiative that expands Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) education for girls in our program through facilitated sessions and the distribution of printed Period Diaries and SRHR information cards.
- The project has three interconnected activity streams; -
⦁ Expand SRHR Sessions
Sessions are using participatory, girl-centered facilitation methods including small group discussions, anonymous question boxes, case scenarios, and peer-sharing activities to ensure girls feel safe and comfortable engaging with sensitive topics.
⦁ Print and distribute Period Diaries
We do print and distribute copies of the Period Diary a practical, girl-friendly booklet that helps girls track their menstrual cycles, understand their bodies, and record their health. The Period Diary is always introduced during our first Session and used as a companion tool throughout all sessions.
⦁ Print and distribute SRHR Information Cards
To complement the Period Diary and extend SRHR knowledge beyond the sessions, we print pocket sized SRHR information cards to all participants and shared with girls outside the immediate cohort for example sisters, peers, school friends.
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- Completed Projects
Project: Empower Her To Speak!
Funded by: The Pollination Project
Date: March 2025
When girls in rural communities got the menstrual products and health education they’d been denied, everything shifted.
With a simple belief, community led solutions change what’s possible for girls. With support from The Pollination Project, we launched Empower Her To Speak!- bringing menstrual products to 100 girls reaching 200+ girls and community members with puberty and reproductive health education and sparking open conversations that broke down stigma.
- Completed Projects
Project: Community Waste Collection Campaign
Funded by: Leap Africa – (YOUTH DAY OF SERVICE -YDOS)
Date: August 2022
We noticed that there was no sufficient formal infrastructure in place to collect and process waste, if we dig deeper, it stems from the fact that the topic has not been a priority in Municipal politic, there wasn’t no clear goal and regulations on managing real amounts of waste, no clear accountability in place and budget allocation.
In support from Leap Africa, Kyambogo University students and local volunteers on Youth Day of Service, we created awareness through Education to Market vendors and neighboring communities about waste management as well as doing clean up as an example to support and give back to our community especially those in the poorest neighborhoods and urban slums.
- Completed Projects
Project: COVID -19 Emergency Relief
Funded by: Community Volunteers
Date: May 2020
This project started with Give Hope Uganda after seeing how the pandemic of COVID-19 had caused fear in our communities and there was no usual work done to reach our beneficiaries who had started raising fear of the situation that they might die of hunger before facing corona virus this made us to start looking for ways how we can support each other as a community.
We supported 17 households with 170kg of posho, 85kg of Beans, Bars of Soap/sanitizer and 34kg of Sugar. This directly benefited 100 people including children for 10 days.
We take the opportunity to thank our beloved volunteers Sallie, Eva, Brett, Jane and local volunteers who made this to happen.
- Completed Projects
Project: Girls SPEAK! Campaign on Menstrual Health Management
Funded by: CIVICUS World Alliance
Date: November 2018
GHU was one of the key organizing partners for the 2018 SPEAK! Campaign - an initiative of CIVICUS World Alliance that was seeking to bring together people and communities across lines of division to help build connection and understanding.
Specifically, GHU empowered almost 100 girls from three community primary schools to discuss the stigma and discrimination in Uganda regarding Menstrual Health Management (MHM) and bridge the gap of silence between the girls and their parents.
