Support 2000 Kenya school girls with reusable pads

The year 2020 turned to be a very different year to many people in different countries world wide as a result of corona virus infections.  In some countries the pandemic started as early as January and since then many activities have been heavily affected.  In Kenya the first corona virus case was reported in March where the government closed all the institutions immediately.   Our plans were to visit the schools and conduct trainings in various schools and distribute sanitary towels but due to the pandemic this turned out to be a different story.  In February we managed to visit a primary school in Baringo County as earlier reported.  During the visit, we conducted empowering sessions to the girls and teachers and distributed 120 packs of reusable sanitary towels to the girls.   The sessions were very fruitful and we promised to continue with the sessions during monitoring visits in the course of the year.  We had scheduled visit to other schools in the course of the term in Baringo and Nakuru County which we had to cancel when the schools were closed.  The idea was to conduct more sessions empowering our girls and the teachers and distributing sanitary towels where possible.   We hope to continue with these sessions once the schools reopen.  At the moment, we continue fundraising for reusable sanitary towels to be distributed as we go for the sessions.  The number of schools requesting for our support is increasing where many teachers have reported cases of vulnerability in most families expressing urgent need of the sanitary towels as many young girls are dropping out of school at early stages.  Due to vulnebility, many young girls are being abused by the young men in the villages where they are sexually used for them to be given some money to buy some essentials as sanitary towels.  As a result of this, some girls end up getting pregnant and others getting married at very early ages thus dropping out of school.  We are concerned if they continue staying home due to corona virus pandemic as the number of these cases may continue to rise.  As we continue fundraising, we request for your support on this as we also thank you for your continued support. 

It’s another new year and we are happy to report that our girls from different schools had a great long December holiday.  They are now back to school for a new term and for those who graduated from primary school they have now joined different secondary schools in different parts of the country.  We are proud of them for the achievements and smooth transition.  As we start the year, we plan to do more for our girls in terms of empowering them and ensuring that they remain in school as expected.  We have a group of girls who are starting their adolescent and maturity and menstruation might be a night mare to some of them and especially the very young one who doesn’t understand what is happening or what will happen to their bodies.  There is need to have  sessions on some of these sensitive topics with them to prepare them even before they are taught by their teachers where sometimes they don’t dig deeper into the details and we have realized that some of them are not well prepared and they get confused in the process.  Our plans are to have these sessions with these girls and their teachers so that they can understand into details what this is all about as well as give them room to air their views and ask questions which they might be having.   We intend to do this when distributing reusable sanitary towels in various schools in the course of the year.  The idea is to support and help as many girls as possible but due to limited resources, we are not in a position to support many girls but with your support and donations, we can increase the number of beneficiaries and we therefore invite you as we start the year to consider walking the journey with us.  This school term, we intend to distribute some sanitary towels to a school in Baringo where we will also conduct the sessions as we continue fundraising for more funds to support other schools who have already requested us to consider them.  We appreciate the support and your generous contributions that you have given us.   Thank you very much as we pray for more blessings to you and your loved ones.