When you educate a girl in Africa, everything changes. She’ll be three times less likely to get HIV/AIDS, earn 26% more income and have a smaller, healthier family.
Everybody has the right to education, which has been recognized since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. The right to free and compulsory primary education, without discrimination and of good quality, has been reaffirmed in all major international human rights conventions. Despite this, many of these same instruments encourage, but do not guarantee, post-primary education. These rights have been further elaborated to address issues like quality and equity, moving forward the issue of what the right to education means and exploring how it can be achieved.
Basic education provides girls and women with an understanding of basic health, nutrition and family planning, giving them choices and the power to decide over their own lives and bodies. Women's education leads directly to better reproductive health, improved family health, economic growth, for the family and for society, as well as lower rates of child mortality and malnutrition. It is also a key in fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS. Educating girls and women is an important step in overcoming poverty. The focus on poverty reduction makes the right to education to be a powerful tool in making a change in the lives of girls and women.
Therefore, Nyimbwa Multi-purpose Organization supports female students in Luweero and neighboring Districts to achieve their educational goals.
Since 2010, we have supported 16 female students both at secondary level and University.