I joined COC as a facilitator in 2017. This is when I got selected by the implementing CSO in Kamuli and got trained in FEB 2017 by Plan international Uganda under the Ni- Yetu Project. Before I became a champion of change, I knew that being a man ment everything and I was only waiting for my time to marry a wife so that I assume complete power and authority over her. In my life I enjoyed minimizing and calling girls all sorts of names to mean that the values was less compared to the boys. I even used the bible so much to remind girls in my community how they are products of men and that ment that they are under men. Read More

Am Babirye Joy ,I stay at Kasambira trading centre, Kasambira Parish ,Bugulumbya S/C – Kamuli District ,am a champion of change for the girls. Am a single mother who became a mother when I was a child. Before Champion of Change methodology. I had no information about gender equality and sexual Reproductive health neither did I know any health right that I could benefit from since I was a child mother whom everybody knew that my value hard already diminished, I did not have abilty and capability to talk about myself and to the public. I knew that menstruation is a disease and problem since my community belief understood menstruation as a sign of maturity to marry so I hated it so much from the day I received my first menstruation period.  Read More