By Angie Roberts | Executive Director
The Alliance is committed to increasing the number of girls in school and seeing those girls complete their high school education. We work with the village education councils and the student/parents associations to educate them about the importance of young girls going to school. We build latrines with each of our schools so that girls feel safe and comfortable at school. The vaccinations we give and the mosquito nets we provide help ensure that each child in our schools will hopefully avoid major illnesses and maintain a high attendance.
Through out partnership with Days for Girls we learned that once young women start having their periods, they often miss up to one week a month from school. For those in remote villages, feminine hygiene products may consist of leaves or old rags. For those who can afford it, a pack of 10 sanitation pads costs a dollar--and most of our villagers live on less than $1 per day.
Women and girls from Utah worked furiously to complete 1200 feminine hygiene kits that we then delivered to various school when we were there in February. The young women in Mali were grateful not only for the kits but also for the fact that young women across the world cared enough about them to make these "gifts."
Alliance Project Director provided trainings on the kits and menstruation at each school--so that the girls left with a kit knowing how to use it and how to better understand their own bodies.
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