SAFE GIRL .

Dear donors, family, friends and partners,

I feel delighted to report that 2020 amidst all the challenges concerning the Corona pandemic (Covid 19) has been a successful milestone for the Gejja Women Foundation

2020 marked our two years anniversary at our official location in Mpigi district, the women Centre. The year, amidst Covid 19, saw us grow and succeed in various projects and activities. The greatest achievement in 2020 was the official registration of our Safe Girl reusable sanitary pads by UNBS, a quality control body in Uganda. This will enable us to distribute Safe Girl pads throughout the country. Nevertheless, Covid 19 did not leave us completely untouched, and we experienced challenges in Safe Girl pad productions due to difficulties to have materials shipped to Uganda. Thus, we were only able to produce 20.000 reusable pads. In addition, the closing of schools due to Covid 19 heavily impacted our schools outreaches in 2020. 

We used this situation to invest our time and resources into Agriculture project, growing more vegetables for the community market and engaging women and girls from different communities. Also, we initiated a Seed Loan Project, in which we trained 35 women in sustainable farming and distributed seeds for planting, with women sharing 10% of the profit with the organizations running. In this report, we would like to share these and many more milestones of 2020 with you. On this note, we also wish everyone a happy new year 2021 and are looking forward to further collaborations in this year.

MISSION

We aim to lower the cost of menstruation through manufacturing and distribution of reusable, washable sanitary pads to adolescent girls and women to proper manage their menstruation

 VISION

We envision a world where menstrual products are affordable and accessible to all women and girls .

PARTNERSHIPS

We collaborated with Stanbic Bank Uganda and received a donation of one Million shillings to Safe Girl to produce

 200 packs of reusable pads, which we distributed among rural school girls from Bulyasi, Mpigi District.

PADS PRODUCTION

In 2020 we produced 20.000 SafeGirl Reusable sanitary pads, which we distributed in different communities such as Mpigi, Masaka, Soroti and Gombe

AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

We also managed to reach out to 1.535 students during our sensitisation campaigns and were able to train 135 girlson how to make their own reusable sanitary pads.

COVID 19 SUPPORT PACKAGES

In this year, we had to quickly adapt To the spread of the Corona virus and collaborated with different projects to provide marginalized families from Rural Mpigi with important necessities Such as food, water, soap etc. to Survive during the heavy lockdown