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Somero Uganda is an organization started by young people living and staying in the slums of Kawempe division, Kampala District Uganda. Somero Uganda currently holds a community centre in Kawempe and Nakawa divisions of Kampala district, Busia district and implements activities throughout the country. We are a grassroots organisation founded in 2009, following the death of a young girl called Nalubega (17 years). She was among the many young girls involved in commercial sex in the area. She suddenly committed suicide due to HIV/AIDS stigmatization by community members and unbearable sexual reproductive health challenges she faced. In 2010, Somero was registered as a community based organisation involved in community education and awareness rising on social and health matters targeted at commercial sex workers in the programme catchment area. The main aim of the organization was to save and prevent many more vulnerable young girls engaged in commercial sex from following the same

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