About Us
Who we are
Fabs is a nongovernmental organization registered with the national NGO Bureau.
The organization has been in existence since 2010, and is registered as Fabs organization trading as Fabs ‘Girls and Women’. Fabs literally means ‘Fabulous’ women and girls. The organization operates throughout Uganda with major focus on economic empowerment, skills development and SRHR advocacy among and girls and women aged 10-35.
The desire to work with this demography is to ensure girls and women are skilled and economically empowered to boldly stand up and defend their sexual rights including contraceptive use , child spacing, Child and forced marriages, , SGBV among others.
Fabs’ 2023-2025 strategic plan puts major emphasis on sexuality education and skills development especially among young people aged 10-25; this is being done through engaging parents, teachers and children as well as supporting children that have dropped out of schools with life sustaining skills like pottery, tailoring, weaving etc.
The organization desires to groom a generation of young people that understand their sexual reproductive health rights and can ably make informed decisions about their sexual health. Fabs is a women and youth led organization.
Our approach
Our Mission
To empower women and girls to realize their full potential through Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights advocacy, skills development and economic empowerment.
Our Vision
We envision a society where all young women and children (10-35) have equitable access to age appropriate information and access to SRHR, skills and economic empowerment.
Our Objectives
To increase access to age appropriate sexual reproductive health rights and services
To increase awareness on the need for increased access to sexuality education for young people both in and out of school.
To facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration, knowledge sharing and networking among girls, young women and leaders.
To make a case for increased access to good quality health care and education for girls and young women.
To inform priority directions for population-specific Adolescent Health programming, services and policy that put service users at the Centre of an integrated framework
To inform a national strategic directions in Adolescent Health programming for Uganda