AViD Teen Mom School
This is an education program for teen moms and their children in rural Uganda. In rural Uganda teenage pregnancies are rampant and they drop out of school consequently.
What’s the problem?
Educating a teen mom in rural Uganda is a threat to the domestic space. This is due to the fact that we are dislocating her from the control of patriarchy, empowering her beyond what her immediate family had planned for her resources and her labor and disrupting a full family system that is designed to make her dependent, submissive and subservient to any way of life that the patriarchy presents to her and yet education is not part of it.
In Uganda today, about 300,000 teenage girls drop out of school due to teenage pregnancies every year. And yet according to UNESCO, Uganda has the highest high school drop out rate in East Africa with only 1 out of 10 being able to go back to school after giving birth and the rest staying in early and forced marriages.
What we do?
Our responsibility in this is to not only negotiate patriarchy and other centers of power but also neutralize the threat into an opportunity for holistic transformation.
At Avid Teen moms school, we emphasize keeping the teen moms with their children to improve child-mother bonding and concentration on self development.
In our stigma free learning environment as teen moms study vocational skills and access counselling, their children are engaged in early childhood development through their kindergarten program.
Vision
Mission
To make it more convenient for teen moms to access education.
Objectives
- Healing the heart
- Skilling the hands and
- Changing the mindset of teenage moms in rural Uganda.