Save Hope of 6,800 Girls drop out of school Uganda

Menstruators around the world, especially in low-income communities, often face a lack of access to menstrual products. Without proper sanitary supplies, they may resort to using alternative sanitary material that may not be good for their health an example in our setting of the most alternatively used materials are rags, and even leaves to manage the periods. The combination of period poverty, stigmatization, and inadequate reproductive and sexual health education has major consequences for menstruators’ wellbeing. It can also prevent menstruators from staying in school, thereby ending their education. APPCO thus has been able to engage beneficiary girls on a skills capacity development initiative to develop low-cost and accessible sanitary ware for the schoolgirls and young women in the communities of Bungatiira and Layibi.

The girls were taken through a step-by-step process in the making of the homemade re-usable pads to promote menstrual hygiene having observed the aspect of sanitary pads costs limiting the girls from accessing the pads when in need. During the same sessions, the girls were taken through a recap of prior learning sessions focused on menstruation, maturation, and physical and emotional changes that occur during adolescence, as well as other topics already covered during the project’s educational sessions. Given the closure of schools, the sessions were conducted at the community level with both schools’ girls and women in participation.

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