Sanitary Pads to Keep 600 Young Girls in School

Menstrual health challenges that young girls and women face in Uganda are something that many people never even think about, because they don’t know any different. But if you live on less than $2 a day,  you can’t afford proper menstruation or sanitation products. Instead, women use mattress stuffing, leaves, newspapers, or rags—things that are unhealthy, inappropriate, and undignified. If you don’t have running water or access to latrines, the situation is worse.  Girls miss an average of 70 to 90 days of school every year because of poor access.  it  daunting and puts them at an even greater disadvantage in the education system.

Our Lucky Girl Sanitary Pads helpes to empower girls to achieve their full academic potential, curbing the high rates of menstrual-related absenteeism. Currently the project target 600 girls in Northern Uganda, and producess more 30 percent of the product which is donated to Gulu Women’s Prison and to schoolgirls who can’t afford it. We’re looking at potentially of expanding the project this year to support refugees coming from South Sudan and reach out up 300- young girls and women in Uganda.

Client Quote:

“I was in primary 5 when I first menstruated” Alice said. She remembers how she bled through her uniform, and every one at school laughed, the boys and girls all laughed at her so she became embarrassed and intimidated so she ran out of class, and did not want to go back. Neither her parents nor her teachers had told her about menstruation, or what to do once it happened. She says that underneath her embarrassment there was also confusion, fear and a feel of hopelessness."

Alice--- Gulu

We are grateful to work  together to support young girls and women in Uganda who are struggling to  transform their  lives meaningfully, your donation makes all this possible. Consider to give more young girls and women to have ahealthy periods.

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