End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia

by African Education Program
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia
End Period Poverty for 200 Girls in Kafue, Zambia

Project Report | Sep 9, 2024
We Can End Period Poverty In Our Community!

By Pamela O'Brien | Development Director

Our Special Education Program holds MHH classes
Our Special Education Program holds MHH classes

We have exciting news to report this month! Our flagship Learning & Leadership Center in Kafue, Zambia, the Amos Youth Centre (AYC), has received follow-on funding from the USAID Youth Excel Research-to-Change program that will help us bring an end to period poverty in our community.

Through our winning proposal, titled "Unleashing the Power of Knowledge: A Multi-Media Approach to Inclusive MHH Education for All," the Amos Youth Centre will create a storybook addressing menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) challenges identified in the first research-to-change project. In the first project, we formulated, tested, and iterated different community-driven solutions for changing the cultural and social taboos surrounding menstrual health and hygiene. The USAID Youth Excel: Our Knowledge, Leading Change program tests and adapts solutions to strengthen menstrual health and hygiene management for girls' education through youth-led “research-to- change” (implementation research) approaches for positive youth development.

This storybook will support girls and young women dealing with MHH issues across different environments such as schools, homes, and communities and it will also empower boys to become champions for girls too. The book will be adapted into both a braille book and an audio book format so that visually impaired children and youth and those who low literacy levels in hard-to-reach areas also have exposure to MHH resources.

AYC’s Reproductive Health Access Initiative (RHAI) is a 4-year-old program that provides adolescent girls and young women ages 9-25 with a safe and friendly environment to access reusable menstrual products and reproductive health information that they would otherwise go without. The RHAI distributes menstrual hygiene products, i.e., reusable menstrual pads, reusable menstrual cups and period underwear, through product training and menstrual and reproductive health educational workshops and seminars.

Here are our project goals:

  1. Increase access to MHH information: AYC plans to distribute the storybook to ten local schools in Kafue and four schools in rural Chiawa Chiefdom, addressing the 71.4% of girls unaware of the existing RHAI program, thereby expanding access to crucial MHH knowledge.
  2. Raise awareness of MHH challenges among girls and young women with disabilities.
  3. Enhance parental involvement in MHH education: Given the finding that 75% of mothers who received menstrual cup training did not discuss it with their daughters, the storybook will provide guidance on various MHH products and encourage open discussions between parents and young people to close still existing gaps around MHH and parental involvement.

This six-month project will only be possible with a lot of effort from the team in Zambia, including paid youth interns who will help us conduct research in the community. We hope you will stay tuned for the end result!! This work is truly ending period poverty and changing lives through access to education!

Thank you for continuing to support our work!

 

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