End Period Poverty for Students in Sri Lanka

Save a Life remains focused on ending period poverty for students across Sri Lanka, ensuring that a student's period never has to mean missing school. This project supports the distribution of sanitary products to students in need, the installation of sanitary disposal bins in school washrooms, and the provision of incinerators for the safe, hygienic disposal of menstrual products.

Menstrual health remains a significant, often overlooked barrier to girls' education in the communities we serve. Many students miss school days each month simply because they lack access to affordable sanitary products or dignified facilities to manage their periods at school. Our work aims to remove that barrier so that no student has to choose between her education and her dignity.

We continue to coordinate with schools in Jaffna to identify students most in need of support and to assess which schools require washroom facility upgrades, such as sanitary disposal bins and incinerators, to create safer and more hygienic environments for menstrual health management.

This is ongoing, quiet work that does not always generate dramatic headlines, but it makes a real, measurable difference in school attendance and confidence for the girls we support. We are committed to sustaining and growing this support as resources allow.

We are grateful to GlobalGiving and our donors for standing behind this cause. Your support directly funds sanitary products, facility upgrades, and dignity for students who would otherwise face real barriers to their education.