Young girls in Uganda face real challenges when it comes to managing their periods in a healthy way. Facilities often lack proper sanitation, putting women at risk of infection and discouraging girls from attending school during their monthly cycle. When a girl's self-esteem and self-confidence suffer, she may drop out of school altogether. These negative effects add up, preventing a young girl from achieving her full potential and living a healthy and productive life.

This project provides information, access and opportunities to young women in the hopes of improving menstrual health for all. Through your support and donation, we shall be able to distribute sanitary pads to girls and mothers who have themselves been impacted by the negative stigma around menstrual health. Pads are then distributed to local schools and rural villages, where young girls including boys receive information on hygiene and proper self-care in an effort to shift this cultural taboo.

We hope that the Healthy Periods Initiative (HPI) will result in a larger cultural awareness around the importance of menstrual health and its implications for women and girls. In 2019, we distributed 1.5 million packs of sanitary pads to schools and the community. We continue to see vast improvements in health and hygiene, self-esteem and school attendance. We are creating employment opportunities within our small social enterprise and building a future with dignity for our girls.

Those who spend their wealth in Allah’s cause are like grains of corn which produce seven ears, each bearing a hundred grains.” (Quran, 2:261)

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