The project is designed to support (200) most vulnerable women & adolescent girls in IDP camps located in Kabul city. Key objectives include (i) General hygiene awareness-raising and training on how to make sanitary napkins, (ii) Distribution of Sewing Machines to target beneficiaries. The long term impact of this project is to reduce the rate of maternal mortalities and hygiene disease among IDP women and adolescent girls. The project's estimated cost is 50,000 USD for a duration of 4 months.
Lack of education and cultural restrictions deprived IDP women/girls on how to maintain sound personal hygiene which causes multiple diseases among them such as maternal mortality, water-borne diseases, and personal hygiene illnesses. The majority of them are not aware of the importance of handwashing practices at critical times which causes fecal-oral contamination. These families are displaced due to multiple reasons such as; insecurity, natural disaster, internal conflict, and unemployment.
Conducting hygiene awareness sessions for 200 IDP women/girls will help them to know about safety tips and prevent them or their families members from affecting hygiene illnesses. They will understand how to maintain sound personal hygiene, and ways of reducing maternal mortalities, beside that they will make sanitary napkins for daily use. The target IDP women/girls will be able to make sanitary napkins by distributed Sewing machines at home and use those sanitary napkins for their own selves.
The proposed activity will guide the IDP women/adolescent girls to stay safe from personal illnesses and guide them to prevent maternal mortality cases in their community. IDP women and adolescent girls will know how to make clean sanitary napkins from basic materials. The objective of this project is to contribute in personal hygiene awareness-raising to reduce the risk and related problems, as well as assist to prevent the cultural restriction for IDP women and girls in Kabul province.
This project has provided additional documentation in a XLSX file (projdoc.xlsx).
