Education
We work to enhance access to quality education, ensuring that adolescent girls and young women not only enroll in primary and secondary schools but also complete their education and successfully transition to higher levels. Our programs focus on breaking down barriers to education, promoting re-entry for school dropouts, and empowering young women through targeted interventions aimed at improving their learning outcomes and life opportunities.
Economic Empowerment
We equip girls and young women with employability skills, empowering them for self-employment and future work opportunities.
Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights
We work to reduce teenage pregnancies, child marriages, and related reproductive health risks among adolescent girls and young women, promoting their overall well-being and future prospects.
Mentorship
We empower adolescent girls and young women to lead, thrive, and take responsibility and ownership of their futures through guidance and support.
Advocacy
We engage policymakers and key stakeholders at all levels to influence policies and resource allocation, addressing the critical needs of adolescents and young women in education, child protection, and sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Knowledge Management:
We systematically collect, organize, and share valuable information and insights to enhance decision-making, improve program effectiveness, and drive innovation. By leveraging data and best practices, we ensure that knowledge is accessible and actionable for our team and stakeholders.
Our Projects
Adolescent Development And Participation
Focuses on skilling adolescents for personal empowerment, active citizenship and empoyability to address the effects of COVID 19 pandemic particularly high school dropouts and teenage pregnancy among girls in urban and rural poor areas.
Girls Empowering Girls
Girls empowering girls programme is the first urban social protection programme in Uganda directly targeting 1500 in school adolescents' girls in Kampala. Goal: 1,500 in Achieved: 1,453 in school adolescent school girls girls empowered mentored, learning through mentoring and enabled and engarged through cash transfer.
Girls Get Equal
The Girls Get Equal Program (2020- 2024) is implemented with funding support from Plan International aimed at reducing incidence of child, early and forced marriages in 100 communities, 120 Primary Schools in 20 sub counties in 04 districts of Adjumani, Nebbi, Pakwach and Zombo districts. Goal: Reduced incidence of Achieved: child, early and forced marriages in 100 communities in 4 West Nile Districts.
Our Approaches
Safe Schools Approach (SSA)
We use this comprehensive strategy to protect children from violence, accidents, conflicts, and hazards in and around schools. TMF engages stakeholders at all levels—children, caregivers, teachers, communities, and authorities—to create both immediate and lasting improvements in school safety.
Child friendly schools’ approach.
TMF adopts a Child-Friendly Schools approach, ensuring schools are safe, inclusive, and supportive environments where children’s rights are upheld. This approach promotes participation, health, safety, and protection, making schools welcoming spaces for all, especially the most vulnerable.
Peer-to-peer Approach
TMF employs a proven peer-led model based on the 70/30 principle, where students take the lead in 70% of the activities, with adults supporting the remaining 30%. Peer leaders, including club heads and prefects, are trained, given materials such as VAC IEC tools and simplified RTRR guides, and empowered to implement their action plans within schools and communities.
Systems Strengthening (Systems Approach)
TMF projects take a holistic approach, strengthening systems and partnerships across district and sub-county sectors like health, education, gender, and community. By uniting state and non-state actors, they create a coordinated, adaptable response to emerging VAC issues. This approach addresses the root causes of violence by empowering key actors to collaborate in building a protective environment for all children, especially the most vulnerable.
Grandmother Approach
TMF leverages the wisdom of grandmothers to support education, child safety, and re-entry efforts. TMf Grandmothers per district mentor child mothers, engage parents on education and positive parenting and mobilize communities for school re-entry and child protection.
Go Back to School Campaigns:
We support vulnerable children, especially girls, in returning to formal education.
How We Work
Our Approach...
TMF’s ambition is that learning combined with skilling and mentorship for adolescent girls and young women remains entrenched in families and communities long into the future. For us, education is more about skilling and empowerment that promotes learning in a safe and inclusive learning environment that allows adolescent girls and young women feel valued, accepted, consulted, protected and skilled to be successful beyond school. TMF is our home. Everyone of us at TMF has a story behind us as survivors of violence and abuse. It’s the reason we work with passion and commitment to change lives of girls and young women. Using our own negative experiences to positively influence lives.
Schools reached
Adolescents Empowered
Adolescents Back to school through GBS Campaigns
Projects initiated by Adolescents
News & Highlights
GEG Programme – Review and Planning Workshop
By KCCA in Partnership with the Government of Uganda and UNICEF Uganda11th – 15th August 2025 Girls Empowering Girls’s Impact: Leticia’s Journey to Self-Discovery and Leadership At just 15, Nambuya Leticia from Mbuya showed remarkable resilience when her family’s income…
Turning Skills into Opportunity: Paula’s GEG Journey
Nambusi Paula’s life transformed with the GEG programme’s cash transfer. Her mother opened a grocery shop, ensuring daily income and enabling Paula to attend weekend classes, improving her performance. Paula invested in doormat making, earning a profit and now trains…
TMF’s Executive Director Elected Interim Chairperson of Parenting Cluster at NECDA
Trailblazers Mentoring Foundation (TMF) is proud to announce that its Executive Director, Joyce Atimango, was elected Interim Chairperson of the Parenting Cluster under the Network of Early Childhood Development Actors (NECDA) during a high-level stakeholders meeting held on Friday, 27th…
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Testimonials
📍Parenting Discussion Highlights!
Today’s conversation, hosted by the @HummingbirdUg , offered such heartfelt reflections on the realities of parenting. We are deeply grateful to @NaomiAyot and @JAtimango for leading us through an honest and inspiring discussion.
Naomi set the…
📍Updates: @Necda_ug stakeholders meeting. As the Secretary of the parenting cluster, our cluster chairperson @JAtimango presented on performance to date with critical issues going forward, presented as follows: Coordination with the Academic & Research cluster for knowledge &…
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