OUR MISSION
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At Kusuubira Women Foundation we are committed to empower teenage and single mothers from marginalised rural communities in Uganda through hands-on skills, self discovery, ICT, and entrepreneurship workshops. This is how we foster self-sustainability, independence, and economic empowerment by enabling them to create, market, and sell their own products for the long-term sustainability of their livelihoods and the prosperity of their families.
THE CHALLENGE
1 in 4 teenage girls in Uganda become pregnant or have a child by the age of 19. Meanwhile, 84% face sexual abuse, often resulting in unwanted pregnancies. The number of single mothers has risen from 20% in 2020 to approximately 30% in 2023, highlighting the urgent need for support.
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Only 22.5 % of adolescent girls enrol in secondary education
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67 districts registered an increase in teenage pregnancies from 2019 to 2020 during Covid
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Economic burden of single and teenage mothers: expenditure on teenage mothers in Uganda in a year was UGX 246.9 billion (70 million USD)
This leads to vulnerability, poverty and exclusion, increased health issues, unemployment and lack of education.
We focus on 3 themes
job creation
providing income to the women employed and therefore independence
education
offering educational programs about social entrepreneurship, women empowerment and personal development
sustainability
fighting plastic polution and fashion waste and creating a sustainable living and working space for our employed women