Sanitary Pads for adolescent girls – Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement

It takes 6 -7 days in a month for an adolescent girl to be on her monthly period. For a school going girl with no sanitary pad, that is an equivalent of 1 week of missing classes in an attempt to avoid being embarrassed with unmanaged period. In Uganda, a normal school term last for 4 months, when a refugee girl misses 7 days per month, the cumulative almost a month of 28 days.

This is a big lost for the girl child and for the family of the refugee child. How would you feel, if your sister is missing school due to lack of a sanitary pad?

How would you feel, if your own child is missing classes due to her monthly period? Now with the coronavirus pandemic, many refugee girls in Kiryandongo Refugee settlement do not get a chance to use a clean sanitary pad.

Many refugee families at this time prioritize getting food for their families. A non-reusable pad in Bweyale town, the closest to Kiryandongo refugee settlement cost $1.5, an amount that is hard to get by a refugee youth and in this challenging time.

• For only $1.5 dollar, you can help keep a refugee girl in school.
• For $10, you can put a smile on the faces of Ten Teenage girls
• For $50, you can change the destiny of 50 Teenage girls by keeping them in School