Tag: Child
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Uniting for Change: Totya Platform and the Brave Movement’s Fight for Child Safety in a Digital Uganda
On the 16th of November, Totya Platform joined other members of the Brave Movement in Uganda to commemorate the Day of the African Child under the theme: “The Rights of the Child in the Digital Environment.”. The event took place at St Denis Ssebugwawo Senior Secondary School in Ggaba, a suburb of Kampala. Among the… Read more
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24 Months of Healing
For the first time since our inception in 2019, we hosted 83 survivors of Sexual Violence who had been part of our healing programme for over 24 months and all of whom could now proudly speak about their ordeals as SURVIVORS. On Thursday, September 1, 2022, these survivors, aged between 13 & 18 years old,… Read more
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TOTYA PLATFORM CALLS FOR NOV 18 TO BE WORLD DAY TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
On the 18 Nov, with support from Together for Girls, Totya Platform, the communities we serve in Mpigi District, other CSOs and representatives from Mpigi local government joined the global movement of survivors and allies in calling for establishing November 18, 2021, as the First Annual “World Day for Prevention, Healing and Justice to End… Read more
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Ugandan Parliament passes the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019
Parliament has passed the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019 providing for criminalisation of a range of sexual offenses that have not been provided for in the existing law. Whereas the Penal Code Act, Cap. 120 provides for a number of sexual offences, the provisions are outdated and do not reflect the evolving trends in social attitudes,… Read more
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Protecting your children from abuse
Protecting your children from abuse entails so much more than talking. It’s a broad matter of how you actually raise them. Below we have listed some strategies how to instill safe body boundaries in children. Bond with your child. Never underestimate the importance of creating a strong bond with your child based on trust, understanding… Read more