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.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
