HOPE, PROTECT & EMPOWER

Right Path is a child rights organization whose interventions address the normalized violations among marginalized children by creating supportive environments that enable every child to live a dignified life.

We advocate for a society in which children are safe and supported to grow to their full potential. Our interventions enable children to find their identity and meaning through connection to their community and the natural world. This is made possible through sharing of lessons and experiences that further increases evidence-based programming and enhances holistic care, and protection, the ability to lead meaningful lives and increase access to quality social services within a supportive community

The Right Path further employs a rights-based approach in programming to ensure meaningful and systematic inclusion and empowerment of the marginalized. Core to this is identifying and utilizing the potential and strengths of the community so as to be self-sufficient through establishing mutual support clusters that receive modest capacitybuilding sessions from Right path and community-based child protection mechanisms. In addition, our mandate lies in partnerships and collaborations because the involvement of various key stakeholders provides a thorough grass-root understanding of the critical problems and possible solutions since the nature of the vulnerability of children is multi-faceted.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of households in the under-resourced settings of Imanyiro in Mayuge district, Kitivo, Makenke, Sakabusolo (KIMASA), and Kimaka at the river banks in Jinja’s northern division struggled for better livelihoods due to the solid economic effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, to the extent, that majority of the multi-age children failed to return back to school due to a lack of educational materials, while for the Girl child the inadequacy of menstrual hygiene items and safe spaces where they can manage menstruation without embarrassment or stigmatization.

Right Path Restored HOPE in these communities through the provision of food rations to households in tough situations, built capacity for the early years’ teachers on how to promote play-based learning and also availed the children with educational materials, conducted menstrual hygiene management sessions for the adolescent girls and women, where they learned how to make re-usable sanitary wear using local materials and here we also involved the boys such that they too can impact the lives of their female siblings in the neighboring schools or at home. In addition, the marginalized adolescent girls and women, each received a Right Path menstrual hygiene kit which encompassed; a bucket, reusable sanitary pads, a small towel, and a bar of soap. This approach was mainly because of the taboos associated with menstruation which ultimately have led to reduced levels of confidence and active involvement in school.

Children’s development occurs in stages and development is a function of both maturation and learning. Subsequently, if the environment limits opportunities for learning, children will be unable to realize their full potential.

As Right Path, we call upon businesses, corporations, and individuals in the developed world to create social change in the global community by bridging the gap such that children can enjoy being children in the supportive communities they call home.

We thank every one of our devotees for walking the journey of letting children enjoy their childhood as we transformed under-resourced settings.

Edwin Wanabe Programme Director

Petronilla Lujwala Board Chairperson