Women and girls are uniquely impacted by COVID-19
and they are critical to the recovery and long-term resilience of companies, communities, and countries.
Women and girls are uniquely impacted by COVID-19
and they are critical to the recovery and long-term resilience of companies, communities, and countries.
Free Fund
2022
COHORTS
COUNTRY
Uganda
Geographic Focus
Economic empowerment
This organisation is a trans women lead organization which was founded in 2015 due to so many challenges faced, such as criminalization, stigma and discrimination facing in their lives and when it came to service provision and the need to promote positive lives among the trans women communities.
With help from THE FREE FUND, this organisation will be implementing an Economic Empowerment project aimed at giving economic independence amongst Trans women dwelling with HIV to minimize poverty Among their communities and enhancing the residing requirements of rural trans women. The venture seeks to raise lives of rural trans girls who lost their jobs at some stage in the COVID 19 outbreak in Uganda.The project will also seek to document and report sharing on COVID 19 role in economic injustices among trans women communities and how they’ve coped with the pandemic.