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Kaabong Women with Disabilities
Tereza had been abused by men and left with 4 children to care for. Homeless, they had wandered the streets. Now... the men and women of AWARE Uganda carefully constructed her first home.Read more ...
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Mothers and Newborns in Kaabong
We are pleased and excited that Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) Kaabong have agreed to collaborate with AWARE Uganda in creating a maternity waiting house at the AWARE Women's Centre..Read more ...
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"I have just purchased a mattress"
Microfinance brings new bedding for women in North-Eastern Uganda"I am very happy of the microfinance at the AWARE-Uganda centre which has improve my financial status, and I have just purchased a...
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Where women farm & care for families - and the men go raiding
The women of Karamoja are predominately the main producers of food and taking care of their families as the men go raiding.Traditionally and historically, Karamojong are nomadic pastoralists and never...
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Preventing Maternal and Infant Deaths in Uganda
"I examined a mother who had walked for seven hours to get to hospital. Her uterus was torn apart..."Kaabong hospital theatre nurse.Medecins Sans Frontiers teams up with Safe World Field Partner, AWARE...
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Gunfire, Poverty and Drought - Volunteering at the grassroots level
"Some weeks I could hear many gun shots, when there is cattle raiding.Hostile tribes have access to guns which they use to attack the weak villages and there are ongoing problems of family neglect and...
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Changing Attitudes & Creating Security for Women in Kaabong
AWARE Uganda continues to bring many improvements for the women of Karamoja.AWARE provides HIV/AIDS counseling and seminars and this has encouraged more positive living and changed attitudes towards...
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Women's Health and Livelihood in Kaabong
Update from AWARE Uganda - Safe World Field Partner in Kaabong, Karamoja:In recent months, AWARE-Uganda continued HIV/AIDS counseling and seminars amongst the community; the result is that this has...
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Uganda: Introducing Family Planning to the Women of Karamoja
In Karamoja, contraceptive prevalence is very low; family planning service provision has been almost non-existent, and on-going violence and insecurity makes providing services difficult.Many thousands...
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First Lady of Uganda Visits AWARE Uganda in Kaabong
On the 2nd February 2012, the First Lady of Uganda visited AWARE Uganda - Safe World Field Partner - and officially opened the new Maternity Waiting House, as well as promising free education for all...
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Uganda: Kaabong Women Focus on Peace & Health - Amidst Rape and Gun Violence
Threats to peace, health, and security present a constant struggle for Kaabong women.Alice Merilkol is HIV Positive, with four children. Just after Christmas, her husband was shot...Last year, two...
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Aware Uganda - Touching Hearts in East London, with the Fawcett Society
"I think people felt very lucky to hear from Teddy, first hand, of her experiences with AWARE Uganda."Hannah Philp, Founding Director at The East London Fawcett Group.Read more ...
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Northern Uganda: The woman who brought engineering to the pastoralists
Safeworld Student, Claire Shaw, talks to Teddy Curran of AWARE Uganda:"I was in trousers and they did not accept it...I used to talk to the women and help them with their skills like, brick-laying,...
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Connecting Kids from African and English Farming Communities
Both schools are in small communities in rural, cattle-farming districts.I told the children in south-west England about my visit to the school in north-east Uganda, and brought along letters from...
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Uganda's Rural Women: 50 Years On
The low social status of rural and urban Uganda women makes them vulnerable to violence and sexual harassment. This – along with female circumcision, wife inheritance, despite international...
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From Kaabong, to Washington DC, to Rural England - and Back
Grace Loumo - founder of AWARE Uganda, has been travelling oversees, to help the women and children of Kaabong, in a remote region of Karamoja on the border of Sudan...Read more ...
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