Daisy Owomugasho, regional director of local Her Choice partner The Hunger Project Uganda, wrote an article that featured in Uganda’s leading newspaper The Newvision: ‘I believe that there has never been a moment in time more important than today when all forms of community systems are being called upon to rise up and protect our […]
Her Choice alliance member ICDI is launching a crowdfunding campaign to teach Dalit girls (a religious-ethnic minority) in Bangladesh to produce their own face masks and sanitary pads and empower them to go back to school when the lockdowns are lifted. COVID-19 is having a major impact on the lives of Dalit girls. The NGO […]
Since the beginning of the outbreak of the virus in Burkina Faso, the local partners implementing the Her Choice programme continued to protect children who appeared to be at greater risk of domestic violence and abuse. Following the restrictive measures given by Her Choice alliance member Kinderpostzegels, the local Her Choice partners in Burkina Faso […]
Her Choice partner The Hunger Project Uganda in partnership with Girls Not Brides Uganda, hosted a meeting to engage members of parliament on the increasing cases of child marriages and teenage pregnancies in Uganda, due to COVID-19. During the meeting, four Her Choice peer educators shared their personal story and advocated for the reopening of […]
Alemu Abegaz is Deputy Director of the Ethiopian NGO WCAT, one of Her Choice’s 27 local partners in the field and local partner of alliance member Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland. He strongly supports the community-led approach of Her Choice. But is this still possible, in these COVID-times and how does he see the future? Alemu believes […]
Because schools in Ethiopia closed due to COVID-19 since the 16th of March 2020, Her Choice partner ESD together with the Ministry of Education and other key partners, developed a COVID-19 response strategy and plan. In this response strategy, distance learning is being developed to be an alternative learning method to ensure that children’s learning […]
In Bangladesh, 38 volunteers have been appointed in 19 intervention villages by Dalit, local partner in Bangladesh of Her Choice alliance member ICDI. This happened in response of the COVID-19 pandemic. The volunteers are working on awareness raising issues regarding the virus they also ensure continued contact and engagement with project beneficiaries and keep an eye […]
Gerald Kato is coordinator of Her Choice for The Hunger Project Uganda. He works hard to tackle child marriage in a country where 40% of the girls are forced to marry before their 18th birthday. But is this still possible, in these COVID-times and how does he see the future? Despite the major impact the pandemic has on the lives of girls, […]
CWIN, a pioneer child rights NGO in Nepal and partner of Her Choice alliance member ICDI, has taken different measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, CWIN continues to carry out the Her Choice programme in the best possible way. Youth Empowerment Centers run with all the precautions and safety measures regarding COVID-19. The […]
COVID-19 has a major impact on the lives of the girls and their families we work with. Now schools have been closed almost everywhere and meetings and travel are forbidden, can we still carry out our programme and are we still able to carry out the endline research? Albena Sotirova is junior researcher in the […]
