Vodafone Marketing Director, Progress Chisenga (left) hands over a sewing machine to Victoria Akinyi CEO Streetlights Uganda. Looking on are former street children and single mothers.

By Our Reporter

Vodafone Uganda marked Women’s day by applauding and supporting Victoria Merab Akinyi the Executive Director of Streetlights Uganda. At 23 years old, Victoria together with a team of 3, founded Streetlights Uganda in 2014 with a vision to transform a degenerated vulnerable children community living on the streets.

“During my university days I used to work with my mother who was a roadside fish vendor in the evenings. After our day’s work, I always saw children living off the streets and the girls seemed even more vulnerable because they were susceptible to rape. I developed a desire to help them,

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Nyambura is a senior journalist based in Kampala

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