By Helen Greenberg | Director of Operations, Eliminate Poverty NOW
Pads for Peace continues the distribution program it began months ago. The purpose is to provide monthly sanitary protection to over 2,000 girls from Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya thus affording them the opportunity to continue their education without monthly interruption. WIthout Pads for Peace they are forced to be absent from school so much that it is impossible for them to catch up. By missing so many assignments they drop out of school. This program allows them to stay in school, learn, complete their secondary education, and provide the possibility of going on to university.
The benefits of this program are many. Two of the biggest and most obvious are that the girls are given the chance to complete their secondary education because now they will no longer miss out one week a month of school. Statistics prove that secondary education for these girls is a ticket away from the profound poverty of the Kibera slum which helps them and their families.Additionally, the manufacture of the pads affords employment for women who assemble the pads in a small factory or work room on the grounds of the Little Rock Inclusive ECD Centre.
We are pleased to have achieved the goal of providing sanitary pads for 2,000 girls. Thanks to the Luna Pads organization and the coopertion of AfriPads, we did not need to raise all the money we orginally projected.
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