Sanitary Pads Keep Ugandan Girls in School

The Kasiisi Project has been busy working with staff and volunteers to ensure the young girls in the Kasiisi Schools are getting sanitary pads so that they can stay in school!  We are dedicated to this cause and continue to work on making the distribution of sanitary pads sustainable in these rural Ugandan schools. The Kasiisi Project is also working with local clinics to facilitate the transport of the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine to Kasiisi Schools and assist in accessing children, with parental consent, to vaccinate. The clinics will be vaccinating approximately 1000 ten year old children and ensuring these children get all three doses of the vaccination! We are proud to work with these clinics to ensure these children do not get HPV. For more information on HPV see the CDC website: 

https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm

Links:

• https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv.htm

The Kasiisi Project wants to ensure that the Girls from Kasiisi Project Schools have accurate reproductive education. So we are starting a new initative to get the girls parents involved! This has historically been a cultural taboo but the Kasiisi Project is working closely with families to fight this taboo and create broader access to information.

Greater family mobility  means that  Aunts and Uncles, traditional sources of sexual information and advice, are now often living far away and parents are hampered by cultural taboos that prevent them talking to their children about sex.

Mothers and fathers in our schools have welcomed our innovative new project  that will help them talk to their children about reproductive health by providing accurate information and effective communication skills.

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• website