Connecting Girls, Inspiring Future

Connecting girls, inspiring future was a theme on international women’s day celebration held in Nyamiseke primary school Kiyomba, Buhesi sub county Kabarole District on 8^th March 2012. The guest of honor was Honorable MP Mrs. Victoria Businge Rusoke commonly known as maama wabana Woman Member of Parliament Kabarole District. she noted that Girls should be protected against all forms of destruction like rape, early marriages among others, but this could only be done by encouraging them to study and working hard while in school as parents provide scholastic materials, like books, pens, lunch, sanitary pads, uniforms among others to facilitate them do well at school for the good future since girls are future mothers and have the potential doing all things as boys can do. She also encouraged women to check cervical cancer for a bright future and, to always go for antenatal check ups when pregnant as directed by health workers to produce health babies and also have health bodies them selves but not going to hospital at delivery time. Disabled children should not be neglected by their parents in education and home care services because they are also gifts from God as other children.

The Guest of honor encouraged women to form groups to be able to access women funds that can enhance development in their homes since the district receives 2,500,000UGX every month as support for women in Kabarole District.

RIC-NET as an NGO working towards millennium development goals (MDG 1 and 3) of eradicating poverty and hunger, empowers women and girls to participate in development activities through information sharing on health and education. In the past years that women were excluded and taken as minorities in society but since 1986, women were liberated by NRM Government to eradicate poverty for development. In Ugandan parliament, 376 Member of Parliament 1/3 of them are women because they are trust worth in all their activities, So RIC-NET in its programme area of social inclusion, health and development encourages women to participate in education and health activities for a bright future for sustainable development.

Several documentaries have been shot on antenatal service delivery and maternal health care from Buhinga Regional Referral Hospital and Rwengoma Health Center to share information with the community on service delivery. Girls have accessed information on how to care for them selves while in their menstruation periods and how breast feeding mothers can care for their children till maturity.

If women and girls get engaged in accessing information on health and education as it is quoted in the Bible that “my people perish because of lack of wisdom and Knowledge”, a step forward will be taken in our communities and homes for sustainable development and prosperity.