Dear John,

Will you help us to reach 2,500 adolescent girls in rural Uganda with sex education and environmental training? 

Our new Empower to Plan partner, the Women and Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa (WACENA), is on a mission to protect and advance girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive rights, while empowering young people to become environmental defenders. They work with 256 schools to deliver innovative sex education workshops, incorporating dance, theatre and one-on-one counselling sessions. Every year, they also provide 200,000 tree saplings to rural communities as part of their goal to create community forests planted, nurtured and championed by women and girls.

Empower to Plan is partnering with WACENA to advance their sex education and gender equality curriculum, while also enabling the distribution of 5,000 tree saplings to schoolchildren and village women.

Will you join us in supporting WACENA’s crucial educational programmes in the Wakiso District of Uganda? 

Your contribution will make a significant difference to the lives of girls and whole communities both now and in the future. By planting community forests in the places most at risk of desertification from growing population and consumption patterns, we can ensure healthy, happy and thriving environments and communities for generations to come.

Thank you,

Population Matters & the Women and Children's Empowerment Network in Africa