RACOBAO plans to provide sanitary towels to 700 young school girls from poor AIDS affected households. Due to poverty, menstruating girls lack sanitary pads and as a result do not attend school until the cycle is over.This increased absenteeism and dropout affects the performance of the girl child. By providing sanitary pads, many girls will concentrate and complete school. With increased performance, the gender gap between boys and girls enrolment and retention in school will be reduced.
Due to poverty, menstruating girls lack sanitary pads and as a result do not attend school until the cycle is over.This increased absenteeism and dropout affects the performance of the girl child. There is increased gender gap between boys and girls enrolment and retention in school.
By providing sanitary pads, many girls will concentrate and complete school. With increased performance, the gender gap between boys and girls enrolment and retention in school will be reduced. The organization will train senior woman teachers in schools to make sanitary pads from locally available materials.
There will be reduced absenteeism and dropout of the girl child. As a result there will be better performance because of regular school attendance and the gender gap between boys and girls enrolment and retention in school will be reduced.
"I was in class and saw my classmates laughing at my soiled uniform. I was embarrassed, ran out of class and didnt come back to school for several days. It took a lot of convincing to return to class"
- Edida Nalukenge, A 15 year old orphaned school girl.
Total Funding Received to Date: $272
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $20,728
Total Funding Goal: $21,000
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