About Madaraja Foundation
Madaraja Foundation is a Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Organization initiated in June 2022 to enhance women’s and girls’ access to quality health information and care in Mukono and surrounding districts. Madaraja, a Kiswahili word for bridges, speaks to the Foundation’s mission to create health links and bridges for the most vulnerable women and girls to improve their Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and overall wellbeing and enhance their participation in income generating activities.
Objective
To improve the sexual and reproductive health and overall wellbeing of women and girls in Mukono and surrounding districts through community-based solutions that are sustainable and youth-led.
Areas of operation
The Foundation will initially operate in Kayunga district, with plans to expand neighboring districts, including Mukono and Luweero.
- Health education, with a focus on adolescent girls, young women and women living with disabilities.
- Strengthening supply chain systems
- Linking women and girls to services
- Strengthening the capacity of healthcare providers (including private providers) to provide family planning services and manage side effects
- Monthly outreaches, working with public health facilities and other implementing partners in the district
- Health education
- Health education using social media platforms.
- Strengthening supply chain systems
- Collaborations with other implementing partners to increase access to support services for survivors
- Awareness creation
- Building capacity at health centers to manage survivors of SGBV.
- Creating youth corners at various health facilities to support teenage mothers deal with post-partum depression, access family planning services and receive nutrition education for their children.
- The youth corners will also be used to link survivors of SGBV to support services.
- Financial empowerment mentorship for the teenage mothers and adolescent girls.
- Collaborating with other implementing partners on outreaches
- Creating awareness using different platforms
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