On Thursday, 4th August, 2022 the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Ethics and Intergrity made their expectations of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) during a meeting the aspirants had with the forum at Parliament house. Top of that list was to ensure they challenge the Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill, 2017.
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Sexual and gender minorities are left out of all services mandated by the constitution as rights of Ugandans; with the halt of SMUG operations, we are afraid this is the beginning of a really terrible dominos game where there will be an extinction of organizations providing services to our community. We are afraid of further marginalization of an already marginalized community.
Service provision has not been left behind in the virtual migration and Men of the Night Uganda (MONU) is introducing virtual reality assisted mental health support.
“This conversation seeks to problematize past modes of support and discuss the road ahead in Uganda and beyond. LGBT+ financial funding could be available but the discussion seeks to explore other forms of support the LGBT+ community requires,” Jakob Svenssen, the panel moderator explained.
Don’t be afraid or ashamed and don’t ever apologize for your sexuality because there is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
During the COVID-19 crisis, I missed out on online Zoom counseling meetings which were scheduled for HIV+ clients with health care service providers, a service I needed the most at the time. Right now after the training I feel confident to even conduct my own meetings.
My name is Chebet Christine from Mbale, Eastern Uganda. I’m 26yrs old but I look like a 17yr old because of my harsh life I’ve gone through.
Let us know if the Uganda Government should consider abolishing single schools to stop students from “becoming” LGBTQ or keep both systems since people are born gay anyway.
The training was good and relevant because I was able to learn different skills of story development which include conceive, compose and control especially for publicity purposes and few poetry writing skills for artistic writers and this will make me a better correspondent.Thank you KTMG for this opportunity of equipping us with more knowledge.-Participant.
One of our biggest challenge is funding but we know it’s a trust process and with time our work will speak for itself.