500 reusable sanitary kits with support workshops

Thank you so much for supporting this microproject to provide 500 reusable sanitary kits for girls and women along with support workshops.

Your support and donation to this project shows how important you believe it is to make sure that periods don’t stop girls and women from being who they want to be and reaching their full potential.

I thought you might like to hear from 4 volunteers in Kenya who feel the same way as you do. These are Community Health Volunteers and also trained ambassadors for menstrual health and sexual reproductive health and rights.

Mary Mibei from Tachasis village says “ the reality for our girls in our villages who come from remote areas is that poverty often prevents them from purchasing sanitary pads and other items like underwear. This forces them to use rags which is unreliable as well as unhygienic. This programme is helping a lot to ensure that girls and women have necessary information, confidence and awareness about how to manage their menstruation”.

Grace Chelangat from Tendwet village says, “being an ambassador means that I can help create awareness and help solve the issues of lack of sanitary pads, I help break taboos and myths about periods and I can reach out to vulnerable people in different villages. Girls and women are able to manage their menstruation hygienically and are no longer shy on anything about menses.”

Rose Koech from Testai village has worked with many boys and girls, men and women through menstrual health education. She says, “there is huge awareness of reproductive health and hygiene and now they know how to make their own sanitary pads. There is a reduction in teenage pregnancy and change in behaviour amongst girls and boys who were trained Providing education in small numbers in our villages means that girls and women in our community are now completing schools and women are going to work”.

Sarah Segei is a Chief in her village of Barotion as well as a trained ambassador. She says that most of the girls in her village have stayed at school and there are less cases of drop outs, teenage pregnancy and early marriages. Girls and boys understand their reproductive health. Vulnerable groups like single parents and young mothers are supported. This happens by training and giving materials for education like the information pack materials for sensitisation and the starter kits for distribution in the village.

None of this would be possible without YOU!

While this microproject is now retired, you can still support this programme through this project

Thank you so much.