This project will assist young vulnerable girls in urban slum schools in Uganda to access free sanitary pads despite the lockdown caused by COVID-19 pandemic, where Girls always need improved hygiene at all times to support themselves achieve greater heights. These girls come from deprived families that cannot afford sanitary pad (1 U$ day). As a result many end by being irregular at school and eventually drop out of school. The project will support 1000 girls from 10 schools as for the start.
Many young girls in Uganda in there course of growth never get the opportunity either to know or ignorant about sanitary pads given that also in their families their mothers never got the opportunity to use on sanitary pad in lifetime. So awareness on sanitary pads and tampons to many of them seem to be taboo and with this kind of life young girls face the worst pain and stages of humiliation in the course of menstrual period characterized with several infections and loss of comfort
This project will create awareness on menstrual health management and the need and use of sanitary pads and tampons. Acquire simple machinery for making sanitary pads, we shall empower young school girls how to make sanitary pads and tampons. Train caregivers and parents on how to make sanitary pads for income generation to so that can be able support education of their children and also share skill.
Reduce unawareness on menstrual hygiene for over 1000 girls. Reduce school dropouts by 45%. Have over 100 girls accessing sanitary pads. Create over 500 jobs for the parents/guardians through employment in sanitary pads and tampon making.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
