Help 50 Ugandan girls make their own sanitary pads

Thank you so much for the donations you made to enable rural school girls make their own sanitary re usable pads. Mountains of Hope hired an organization that trains people in Uganda to make local pads, this training attracted 55 people including men, women, boys and girls there fore making it a comprehensive sustainable menstruation management.

This will encourage collective responsibility in menstruation management, before the training, menstruation was only left to mothers and girls, but after the training, it was realized that it was a family responsibility.

All participants were taken through a practical process of making locally made pads, and every female and participant went back with their made pads.

James,  a project Leader interviewed some participants and here is the interview between James and Sarah, a 14 year old girl:

James: What are your expectations of this training?

Sarah: I expect to be trained to make my own sanitary pads and to know what materials to use to make them.

James:Have you been buying sanitary pads? and if yes who was buying them for you?

Sarah: No. But I have been using old News papers, I squeeze them until they get soft. If I run short of them I pluck off some pages in my exercise book.

James:When you heard of this training, how did you feel?

Sarah: I felt like the savior has come... "Laughs louder"

Sarah, is one of the girls that will never forget about the day she received this training, she was able to make 2 pads, and these 2 can be used for a whole year according to the expert.

Many girls had dropped out of school and others could absentee them selves because of fear to stain their clothes because of menstruation. Sarah and the rest have called this history now.

Our project is planning to train more 50 people in another community in making the same to enable girls continue their education and also enable mothers do their work better as most of them can not also afford the sold pads.

James Malinga

Project Leader