#SaveAWACModelDiC
Appeal for Emergency Support:
Appeal for support towards the Relocation and Remodelling of AWAC New Model Drop-in Centre (DiC)/Safe Space to ensure continuity of health, economic, social and protection services for Sex Workers with multiple and intersecting vulnerabilities.
The Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC)
AWAC is a feminist, umbrella network of grassroots Female Sex Worker (FSW) led groups, organizations and collectives in Uganda, established in 2015 led by FSWs to respond to FSWs’ comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), and mental health needs, challenge the multiple facets of criminalization and stigmatization of sex workers, address the socio-economic deprivation, and shrinking civic space. AWAC’s mandate also extends to fast-tracking the sex workers’ contribution to the attainment of both the global and local development agendas such as, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and the Uganda National Development Plan.
Female Sex Workers reached
32,000
Member organisations
57
Regions of Uganda
6
Projects Implemeted
30
VISION
Female Sex Workers free from Human Rights abuse and living healthy and productive Lives.
MISSION
To build a resilient Female Sex Workers (FSW) movement that advocates for equitable and sustainable Universal Healthcare, and the Promotion of Human Rights and Social Economic Justice in Uganda.
OUR VALUES
Our values show what matters most to us and tell the world what AWAC stands for. Our Members, Staff, Volunteers and Peers live by our core values every day; right from the AWAC Secretariat to its grassroot membership organisations.
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Network and Movement Building
Research and Knowledge Management
Advocacy, Lobbying & Influence Policy Development
Strengthening on SDGs, Skills Development, and Economic Empowerment
Organisational Development and Sustainability
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Press Statement For Immediate Release on the killing of women especially Sex Workers in Sembabule, Wakiso, and Kawempe Division -Kampala District.
February 14, 2024 0Wednesday February 14th, 2024 Kampala -Uganda The Alliance of Women Advocating for Change(AWAC), and the Uganda Key Population Consortium (UKPC) stands in solidarity with our grassroot sisters and their families who have tragically lost their lives in the recent wave of violence targeting women- especially sex workers in Sembabule, Wakiso, and Kawempe Division -Kampala District. The gruesome killing of; Annet Nantingo, Madrine Nakuya, Flavia Ajuka, Najjuko Promise, Mulungi Annet, and Mastula Nabasirye between October 24th, 2023, and February 5th, 2024 in Ssembabule district, and killing of Nimusima Edith, and Nakatudde Shamim in Bwaise,Kawempe Division, represent a reprehensible manifestation of […]
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