Champion Her Right to an Education

by ZanaAfrica Foundation
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education
Champion Her Right to an Education

Project Report | Jul 11, 2017
Period Progress!

By Alison Nakamura Netter | Chief Communications & Development Officer

Dear Friends,

Progress is happening for adolescent girls! On June 22nd, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta passed a law to ensure free sanitary pads for all schoolgirls. With our support, starting in 2010, the Government of Kenya was the first country to write sanitary pads into the national education budget, making them as essential as other school items like pencils and notebooks. And with this policy amendment, the provision of pads is not just a budget item that can be cut, but a law. We are hopeful that this initiative will roll out successfully, and we will continue to fill in any gaps as needed. 

In other news, on June 19th, with our partners, The Population Council, we officially launched the Nia Project! This two-year study involves 5,000 adolescent girls currently in Class 7 across 140 primary schools in three sub-counties of Kilifi, Kenya. It is designed to determine the degree to which providing girls with reproductive health education (our Nia Teen magazines) and menstrual hygiene products positively impacts their education, health, and safety. This is the FIRST rigorously evaluated study to provide longitudinal evidence regarding a) Primary school completion and Primary School performance and b) improvement of health and safety outcomes as defined by reduction of unwanted sex, delay of early pregnancies, and increased reporting of gender-based violence. 

The study will evaluate the individual and combined impact of sanitary pad distribution and reproductive health education on these two axes of evaluation. Evidence from The Nia Project will lay the foundation for future action and study on menstrual health management, and school-based reproductive health education. These results will represent a major step forward in the quality of evidence on approaches to improve the health, education, and social outcomes of adolescent girls in Kenya. We are inextricably excited and honored to walk with 5,000 girls on this journey!

Lastly, we presented our work at the 2017 Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference in Atlanta on June 23rd! It was wonderful to unite with our fellow menstrual health and equity advocates from around the world. This is truly a GLOBAL movement and we're thrilled to be a part of it.

I have attached a photo of some of our beneficiaries enjoying their copy of Nia Teen magazine, as well as a photo from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference!

Thank you, as always, for your support. We could not do this work without you!

 

Warmly,

Alison

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ZanaAfrica Foundation

Location: Washington, DC - USA
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Twitter: @ZanaAfrica
ZanaAfrica Foundation
Alison Nakamura Netter
Project Leader:
Alison Nakamura Netter
New York , NY United States

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