In Margaret’s community, many people call her “mummy” as she shows tremendous support and dedication to anyone asking her for help. For nearly two decades, Margaret has worked with Reproductive Health Uganda to offer sexual and reproductive health information and counseling to different groups in her community. She is helping to improve the lives of thousands of young Ugandans by giving them the tools they desire to avoid unintended pregnancies, stay in school and live healthy, productive lives. In a country like Uganda, where 75% of the population is under the age of 30, and 1 in 44 women has a lifetime risk of maternal death, access to quality sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services from providers like Margaret have never been more important.
Margaret’s own experience of getting pregnant at 18 and having her son taken away from her inspired her to work with girls and women in her community so that they could be better informed and feel empowered. “Ignorance is the worst disease. In certain countries where girls don’t have information and where they are not empowered, they are blamed for what they have fallen into instead of helped,” says Margaret.
