This project will ensure that 2000 girls from 20 public primary schools within Kakamega County have access to sanitary pads to enable them stay in class throughout the term. The project will also ensure that the girls are equipped with vital information on menstrual hygiene management which is never incorporated in the current coursework.
During our baseline survey conducted in 2014, we discovered that 95% of girls from underprivileged backgrounds miss 4-7 learning days every month during their menses due to lack of proper means of managing themselves. This negatively affected their general academic performance. It also led to low self esteem especially when they soiled their school uniforms. Some of the girls resorted to prostitution in order to get money to buy pads ending up into teenage mothers and dropping out of school.
HAGEP not only provides termly supply of sanitary pads to school going girls within Kakamega county, it also offers lessons on menstrual hygiene management and basic information on reproductive health. This has greatly helped in boosting the girls' self esteem, reducing school absenteeism and child prostitution. Cases of teenage moms and school dropouts have greatly reduced.
The project will ensure 2000 school going girls from Kakamega county access annual supply of sanitary pads allowing them to stay in class throughout the term, this will positively impact the girls' academic performance. The project will also address cases such like child prostitution and teenage pregnancies which are associated to lack of sanitary pads. Finally we will raise the girls into women who are proud of themselves and are able to achieve their full potential even after school.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
