This project will equip 650 girls with skills in making re-usable menstrual pads and provide counseling services to enable girls cope with menstrual-related emotional challenges like fear, shame, distraction, confusion, mood swings and the physical discomfort. We will provide health education so as to dispel the myths associated with menstruation and empower the girls to appropriately manage their lives during such periods.
Girls in rural Uganda lack access to menstrual health supplies, sanitary facilities and reproductive health information. Hence, 1 in 10 menstruating girls miss school four or five days every month and may eventually drop out. A girl absent from school for 4 days of every 28-day cycle, loses 13 learning days, the equivalent of 2 weeks of every school term. Altogether 23% of adolescent girls, ages 12-18 years, drop out of school soon after they begin menstruation.
Ravens Foundation will engage the adolescent girls and young women on issues of reproductive health through; Providing information on Menstrual Health and skills in making re-usable pads. Life skills training to equip the girls with necessary skills in assertiveness and decision making, enabling them to cope with life's challenges and overcome stigmatizing labels against girls. Prevention of Teenage pregnancy, early marriages, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted Infections (STIs).
Reduced the risk of infections resulting from use of unhygienic menstrual materials. Provision of reproductive health education will dispel cultural myths associated with women's reproductive health and increase knowledge levels, as well as empower the girls on how to manage their reproductive health in a better way. Easy access to cost effective re-usable menstrual pads. Equipping girls with skills in making re-usable pads will ensure sustainability of the project gains.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
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