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WHO WE ARE
BTRMU is a community based org started in 2007, working to rescue, rehabilitate and resettle young girls and women who have suffered sexual exploitation and Human Trafficking towards a healthier lifestyle together with their children. We currently run a shelter situation in mbiko njeru town council and a drop in centre in kizungu zone.

Vision
“ A Community where young girls and women free from sexual exploitation and living positively empowered lives.
Mission
“To rescue, rehabilitate, empower and resettle young girls and women who have suffered sexual exploitation towards a healthier lifestyle together with their children.


Objectives

1. To provide care and support young girls so that they discover their potential.

2. To share the love of God so that they also share what they have received with all.

3. To equip girls with psychosocial skills to help them develop a positive self-image and build resilience.
4. to provide spiritual support that influences behavior change so that they can also share what they have acquired
5. to equip girls with leadership skills to enable them better express their potential and influence society
6. To equip them with business and entrepreneurial skills for self-sustainability.
7. To fight against any form of sexual exploitation and human trafficking

Values
Togetherness

Love

Integrity

Confidentiality



Target Group.
The primary/ direct beneficiaries of BTRMU include girls within the age group of 18 –24years (at the home and drop in centre who are sexually exploited. The categories of the direct beneficiaries may include; identified girls living independently in slums, bars, lodges, brothels etc.

Victims of human trafficking for sexual purposes of whichever age have been added to the target group


Our interventions:BTRMU seeks to rescue, rehabilitate and resettle girls affected by sexual exploitation

1. Counselling and reconciliation.
2. Life Skills Training
3. Accommodation & family support during rehabilitation
4. Provide/restore structure in the girls’ lives
5. Vocational skills training
6. Behaviour change training
7. Entrepreneur/Business skills
8. Leadership training
9. Feeding.
10. Medical care
11. Peer education
12. Community sensitization
13. Sensitization, Counselling & empowerment of parents/guardians
14. Community outreach to exploited girls
15. Resettlement package
16. Functional Adult Literacy
17. Opportunity for girls to give back to society by reaching other girls.
18. Opportunities for volunteers to work with the girls.
19. Follow up after resettlement.
20. A drop-incentre were we receive, listen and pray with the girls.


Achievements
– Over 500 girls have been reached by BTRMU during our prevention program.
– Over the years 140 young women have gone through the residential program (lived in the home)
– 140 have opened small business and are running well.
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– A smoothly running home that provides accommodation during rehabilitation

A Drop-in-center that started in February 2023 that has recorded an attendance of 15 girls who have been empowered with skills and start up and are running small businesses
– Engagement in several advocacy activities about the dangers of sexual exploitation and trafficking through the CATIPU coalition.


Where we would like to go


– Acquiring land and constructing a skilling and rehabilitation centre
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– Have more girls withdrawn from sexual exploitation; an average of 100 girls from sexual exploitation/prostitution and an average of 60 victims of human trafficking annually
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– Integrate some into the formal education system
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– Opening up another centre in Busia and Bugiri.
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– Provide vocational training for those that cannot be integrated into formal school
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– Provide adult literacy programmes
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– Nurture & restore the girls’ identity and self-esteem to enable them to proactively engage in personal & society transformation
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– Provide for the welfare of the beneficiaries e.g. health & nutrition
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– Provide business training and start-up capital to support the girls’ business ideas; hence financial independence
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– Step up Advocacy & Community sensitization campaigns about the dangers of commercial sexual exploitation & human trafficking
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– Carry out research to facilitate the designing of appropriate Intervention
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– Acquire sustainable sources of income for BTRMU and its beneficiaries e.g. farming, crafts making

The project aims to address the problem of prostitution in Uganda specifically in Jinja and
Buikwe districts. Since the early 70s, prostitution has grown to be a huge problem in these
districts due to the lack of job opportunities, marketable skills and the poor educational
background of women in Jinja and Buikwe. Consequently, women end up trapped in
prostitution in order to survive. These women often come to Buikwe and Jinja with a hope
of a better life but because this area has few decent job opportunities, the only available
jobs are in bars, selling alcohol, karaoke dancing and sex. As a trial they opt to do it for just
a while. But most of them end up with unwanted pregnancies, HIV, raped, addicted to
drugs and alcohol hence losing their hope, their self-respect and dignity. Thus, the vicious
cycle begins as prostitution becomes their only means of survival, a way of life to support
their addiction and their children who in turn live in the same environment where their lives
are debased. They are rejected by their communities and families while poverty dictates
their worth and future. These women now living in prostitution face insurmountable
challenges, poverty, violence, abuses, and shanty living quarters, financial unpredictability
and poor to non-existing family life for their children. For those who have children, their
babies and toddlers are cared for by other people and most of the time by neighbors. The
older ones are left to fend for themselves with the risk of becoming street kids. Because of
that environment the children tend to lack discipline, have poor mother to child
relationships, and have no father figure in their lives and to have suffered abuses from their
mothers or from those responsible for their care. The biggest concern for the children who

are growing up surrounded by violence, drugs, alcohol and abandonment is that they in turn
become part of that environment. Yet with all these insurmountable needs in Jinja and
Buikwe district, there are currently no organizations apart from the BTRMU at work with
women in prostitution. All the above has brought about a moral decadence in the
community that in turn has also attracted young girls to drop out of school and end up in
the trade. This has necessitated the need to address the problem through preventive
measures.
There is community stigma against women in prostitution believing that they deserve what
comes to them and believe they have brought it upon themselves, making them vulnerable.
They cannot easily access services like counseling, community education and they are not in
the target group of the community.. Even the community leaders do not act as advocate
because of how they prejudge the women in prostitution. The center will help bridge this
gap between the women and the leaders. Through this initiative, the local community
leaders including the pastors and the health facilities personnel will have a chance to see
the need to do something about this cause.

Buikwe Touch Rehabilitation Ministries Uganda Limited is a rehabilitation organization based in the Buikwe/Jinja area, dedicated to empowering at-risk women, children, and youth. It focuses on fostering healthier lifestyles, providing community reintegration, and restoring dignity to vulnerable individuals, often through counseling and support services. 

Key Details about Buikwe Touch Rehabilitation Ministries:

• Mission: To rehabilitate and empower women and children at risk, promoting healthier lifestyles and restoring dignity.
• Services: Offers community reintegration, individual counseling, and support for at-risk children and youth, including those under 18.
• Location: Operates in the Buikwe/Jinja region of Uganda.
• Social Media: Updates on their work, including support from partners like TiKA, are shared on their Facebook page. 

The organization works towards social reintegration and provides specialized care for vulnerable groups in the region

BTRMU was founded in 2007 by Mary Zema who began working with nine women from the
streets of Mbikko in Buikwe district. She would take regular visits down to the women
working at bars, spend time with them, talking to them, getting to know why they ended up
in prostitution and working with them toward a life out of prostitution. BUIKWE-TOUCH REHABILITATION MINISTRIES UGANDA, (BTRMU)
is situated in Mbikko (Buikwe district), a semi urban township just outside of Jinja a town
about 80 km from Kampala, Uganda. Mbikko is one of the main stopovers in Uganda for
long distant drivers who come with a lot of money with the aim of spending it on alcohol
and women. It has also become well known as a place for drugs, alcohol and most especially
prostitution. Every year, many young women and girls come to Jinja and Mbikko with the
aim of making money for themselves in an honest way. Unfortunately due to the lack of job
opportunities in the area, many women are unable to earn enough money to support
themselves, and as a result they fall into the trap of prostitution. Their vulnerability to
falling into prostitution is heightened by the high number of bars and loose morals in the
region – and as this is one of the few ways women can earn a living they find themselves
being forced, coerced and deceived into prostitution.We are here to change the narrative.

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