Headteacher Ms Nakayiza Amina of Kisimba Umea primary school with a group of girls who left school  because they were pregnant. However, they were able to return to school to sit their exams. Some of the girls are now mothers; others lost their babies due to miscarriages. 

Young mothers are getting back to school

In Uganda’s Buikwe District, securing adolescent mothers’ right to education is about changing people’s minds—one community meeting at a time.

AMEI young mother

New Partner: Greetings from the Adolescent Mothers’ Education Initiative Consortium

AMEI is an advocacy and social accountability project aimed at highlighting barriers that exist preventing pregnant girls and adolescent mothers returning to school in DRC, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

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