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Education

Our students from the field of education are tutorial assistants, teachers, principals, lecturers and professors from all levels of education in Uganda. They are influencing tomorrow’s leaders on the issue of safe motherhood and pregnancies.

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Abigail Komurere

Abigail Komurere is a Tutorial Assistant at Kakoba University in Western Uganda.

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Jimmy M. Mugisha

Jimmy M. Mugisha works as a trainer for 50 students of social work. They have a three-month outreach to the community where they reach hundreds of Ugandans with messages for social improvement. Jimmy has been sharing his STM training with his students, who have been strongly advocating for safe motherhood.

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Kellen Ayebazibwe

Kellen Ayebazibwe is the Inspector of Schools for Mbarara District in Western Uganda.

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Nason Bwesigye

Nason Bwesigye is a secondary school teacher. He has used his training through the Save the Mothers program to help educate over 500 students who attend his school around the issues of safe motherhood and particularly the importance of avoiding adolescent pregnancy. Young mothers are much more likely to die from pregnancy complications than older, married women. Many young girls in Uganda end up dropping out of school because they get pregnant early. They have little or no chance of every returning. It is not very uncommon to find girls as young as 13 getting pregnant.

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Yunia Lwanga

Yunia Lwanga is a respected school principal influencing tomorrow’s leaders with the knowledge of safe pregnancy and maternal health. She has implemented strategic health programs in her own school to educate both students and teachers about safe motherhood.

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Virginia Plan

Virginia Plan works as the director of a Primary School in Uganda. As part of her STM training, she studied the knowledge and practices of birth preparedness plans among pregnant women. She has integrated safe motherhood training into her school and has piloted the use of drama and music amongst children to communicate to large audiences about maternal health.

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Peter Mwesigwa

Peter Mwesigwa is the head teacher for Rena College Mayuga in South-eastern Uganda. He is using his position to educate adolescents at his school about reproductive health through school dramas. He is also encouraging male involvement in pregnancies at his church and promoting safe motherhood on a radio talk show in Kiira, Uganda (Eastern Uganda).

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Joan Kempango

Joan Kempango is an Assistant Lecturer at Kampala International University. Since beginning her training with STM in 2008, Joan has been organizing outreach activities to rural communities for antenatal care, family planning, birth preparedness and immunization.

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Jolly Muhindu

Jolly Muhindu is a teacher at the Bwera Secondary School in Kasese (Western Uganda). She has been running campaigns on reproductive health and family planning for adolescent girls, to encourage them to delay marriage and stay in school. She has also been involved in various activities to financially empower women and improve nutrition for women and children in her community.

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Alice O. Nabuloli

Alice O. Nabuloli is the tutor education officer for the Ministry of Education. In this position, she is able to teach nurses and midwives who are already working in the field about the importance of safe motherhood.