The project will construct a drain-able girl's toilet with wash-room, hand-washing facility, distribute reusable sanitary pads and soap to poor school-girls in Agirigiroi P/S. Project approaches are: 1) to provide assistance that improves girl's menstrual hygiene and sanitation management. 2) reduce the rate of girl-child school drop-out, absenteeism, juvenile marriages, unplanned pregnancies, unsafe abortion, HIV infection and girl sex exploitation. 3) awareness-raising on menstrual hygiene.
The insufficient, unhygienic, dilapidated mud toilets without tip-taps, open defecation, poor hygiene and sanitation; lack of sanitary pads affects girl's education in Agirigiroi. Girls embarrassingly share toilets with teachers, defecate openly resulting to school drop-out. (UNESCO 2011) Uganda has the highest school drop-out rate for females in East Africa that exposes girls to early marriages of 46% (UNFPA 2012), unwanted pregnancies, sex exploitation, HIV infections and unsafe abortion.
For poor rural girls to complete education and have a better future desires collective support and protection against stigma girls undergo during menstrual periods at school. Construction of a durable drain-able girl's toilet with wash-room and hand-washing facility; providing reusable sanitary pads, soap to use during menstruation, awareness-raising on menstrual hygiene management and WASH related diseases is a solution with a remarkable impact to successful girl education and protection.
Project long term impacts are: girl's absenteeism, school drop-out will greatly reduce resulting to reduction in early marriages, unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortion, HIV infections but increased motivation to stay at school, complete education because of favorable hygienic and sanitation environment. Girl's privacy and protection during menstruation is guaranteed. A drain-able latrine can last 30 years, benefits 3,000 girls , cost-effective, when full, it is drain-able and reused repeatedly
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
