What We Do
Health Service provision
WONETHA addresses the health disparities for sex workers through direct provision of health information, commodities, testing services and referral to health care. We ensure that the health workers understand the health issues affecting sex workers and are able to skew services to those needs.
Paralegal support and primary justice
WONEHA addresses violations of rights of sex workers by increasing access to justice through provision of first legal aid and referrals of cases to lawyers. We promote rights through awareness of human rights to ensure that sex workers understand and can defend their rights. We document these violations and ensure that the perpetrators of these violations are exposed and followed up.
Strengthening Capacities
WONETHA strengthens the capacity of sex workers to improve their wellbeing. This is done through training them as peer educators and paralegals to take care of their own issues, economic empowerment to earn alternative income, movement building, supporting children of sex workers and rehabilitation for under age sex workers.
Knowledge Management and Advocacy
WONETHA uses research and documentation as a tool to generate and manage knowledge for evidence-based advocacy. By doing this, WONETHA contributes to the knowledge base on issues affecting sex workers in Uganda. By working with partners, WONETHA pushes for reform in laws that affect sex workers and causes shifts in programming that benefits the lives of sex workers. WONETHA works with partners to cause shifts in attitudes of duty bearers in favour for the rights of sex workers.
Institutional building
WONETHA strives to build a strong and well-grounded organisation, continuously learning, innovative, well positioned and sustainable to challenge violations of rights of sex workers. Strengthening the finance, monitoring and evaluation, governance systems, Human resources and sustained resources are the key priorities in WONETHA’s institutional building goal.
