By Martha Muiruri | Program Coordinator-SanitaryTowels Program
This project has continued to impact lives of many girls. By providing them with sanitary towels and panties we are able to keep them in school during their menses. What is even more interesting, the program also organises periodic meetings where we bring the girls together where they are taught reproductive health education and career mentorship. Therefore we are proud to report because of your generous support this project is reversing the periods of shame where girls would suffer shame and miss school during their menstrual periods to periods of learning and play. Just like boys, girls also are able to participate in extra-curricular activities in school and so they too can pasue their dreams and exploit their talents in sports.
However, this program can not suceed much if men are not involved in the business of providing for their daughter's menstrual needs. The issue of menstrual periods is still sorrounded by a lot of stigma and therefore covered with shame. There is a lot of negligence by men in caring and providing for their daughter's menstrual needs. We need your support so as to conduct participatory workshops where we will provoke a discusssions among the men that will be geared towards involving them in taking women menstrual issue as a man's issue and therefore a responsibility to provide both for daughters and other disadvantaged girls like orphans and destitude young women and widows. With your generous support we hope to break the African cultural norm that has continued to let women suffer in silence and alone in dealing with the issue of menstrual periods.
We invite you to watch this short video from one of our beneficiary talking on the impact of the project on her life and the lives of many other girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSBZF_SEeY&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share
This program won 2nd prize in Out side the Box Prize from Community Tool Box, an initiative of Kansas University USA for exhibiting innovation and impact in the grassroots. The project emerged second from 309 entries from 42 countries in the globe. We invite you to click on this link to learn more http://fohlc.org/media/press/out-of-the-box-prize-second-place/
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