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ONE PAD AT A TIME TO RESTORE GIRLS' DIGNITY

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ONE PAD AT A TIME TO RESTORE GIRLS' DIGNITY

ONE PAD AT A TIME TO RESTORE GIRLS' DIGNITY

ONE PAD AT A TIME TO RESTORE GIRLS' DIGNITY

ONE PAD AT A TIME TO RESTORE GIRLS' DIGNITY

ONE PAD AT A TIME TO RESTORE GIRLS' DIGNITY

Hope Lukale
Hope Lukale
Hope Lukale
Hope Lukale
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Key Issue 

For girls and women, Menstrual Health Management (MHM) means a healthier and more confident adolescence stage, better school attendance, greater mobility and opportunities and delayed marriage. Imagine a life whereby sanitary pads are almost nonexistent. In many parts of Kenya, this situation is a daily reality. For five days a month, many girls and women are unable to maintain a normal lifestyle because of their periods. Where sanitary products are unaffordable and scarce, many girls are unable to engage in everyday activities during their period. In many cases, periods prevent young girls from attending school, leaving them far behind their male counterparts.  For girls in rural Kenya and Urban slums, a sanitary towel means more than just cleanliness and comfort - it means a chance to dream, learn and succeed.

Despite its considerable impact on health and education, Menstrual Hygiene Management, or the tradition of managing menstruation in a safe and hygienic way remains a neglected subject even though Sustain Development Goal (SDG) Target 6.2 aims for sanitation and hygiene for everyone, everywhere, at all times. The need for girls and women to have safe spaces to manage menstrual hygiene and the mechanisms for safe disposal of sanitary towels is often ignored.

 

Objectives for the project:


1) To empower young girls and women by providing access to reusable/disposable sanitary towels and provide information relevant to menstruation and female reproductive health and rights.

2) To convene focus groups in some communities to identify concerns regarding women’s menstrual health as well as create a network of support for girls.
 

                   
The Negative Effect 
The lack of Menstruation education has had a negative effect on the lives of many girls in Kenya resulting in most of these young girls being unaware of this biological change because they are never prepared for it beforehand. Menstruation is often treated as a taboo topic and this limits women’s and adolescent girls’ access to relevant and important information about their bodies. It has been identified as one of the key barriers to girls’ school attendance. Accessibility to relevant and accurate information allows women and girls to understand and manage their reproductive health and gradually lift stigma associated with menstruation. Effective menstrual management results in increased rates of school attendance among girls, lower instances of reproductive infection and reduced teenage pregnancy.
The lack of these essential feminine hygiene products is damaging to the education of a Kenyan girl who unlike her male counter parts is not only faced by possible health issues that can result from the usage of rags cut from old clothes, newspapers, mattresses and leaves collected from trees used in the place of sanitary pads but suffers a greater blow when her education is interrupted on a monthly basis as she is forced to skip school each month for the duration of her whole cycle making it hard for her to catch up, compete or even succeed in completing her studies.
 

Solution
Hope in Action Network works and will continue to work with these girls and their communities to ensure that they are kept in school giving them access to feminine hygiene products (hygiene kits) combined with the education and information on MHM, correct use of sanitary towels, storage and care for all  the items. This will be in an effort to ensure that they can overcome the stigma. 

Be the Solution:
You and I are the solution. You can help these girls accomplish their dreams of having an education. Kindly give! Give and give!!! Not forgetting to share, share and share. Help us make an IMPACT.
$12 can keep a girl in school for a whole year and reduce the number of days missed at school.

THANK YOU

 

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