Planned initiative · not yet operating

Single Mother Initiative

When a young mother is turned away by stigma, care and dignity shouldn’t be out of reach.

So every young mother can:

HEAL●RISE●THRIVE

📈 The need: ~1 in 4 girls aged 15–19 have begun childbearing (UBOS, 2022)

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A plan, not yet a programme. We are seeking the partners and funding to launch it. What you read here is our design for the initiative, offered openly as a promise we intend to keep.

The Idea

A triple burden — met with one caring team

Teen and young single mothers carry three weights at once: limited access to reproductive healthcare, social stigma, and economic exclusion.

This initiative would bring integrated, confidential care to community gathering points, schools, churches and shelters — antenatal and postnatal care, reproductive-health education, family planning, infection screening, mental-health support and legal and social referral — in step with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Gender.

✓Antenatal and postnatal care.
✓Sexual and reproductive health education and family planning.
✓Screening and treatment for common infections.
✓Mental-health support.
✓Legal and social referral services.

The Need We See

Why young mothers need this

~25% teen pregnancy

of girls aged 15–19 have begun childbearing (UBOS 2022).

Stigma & isolation

many are rejected by families, schools and partners.

Hidden mental illness

depression, PTSD and suicidal ideation go unseen and untreated.

Source: Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2022 (UBOS).

Design Target · Year 1

80,000 teen and young single mothers reached

With a goal that ≥70% access postnatal care within six weeks of delivery — developed with the MoH, MoGLSD and local councils.

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