Action for Community Welfare, based in Uganda, Budaka District helps to support girls and young mothers by offering trainings in Reusable Sanitary Pads making with education in menstrual management and hygiene. In this project, the organization intends to reach 500 girls and young mothers in Budaka District.
lack of sanitary materials in Budaka District forces girls and young mothers to use unhygienic clothes around them when in their menstrual cycle. Girls and young mothers experience extreme poverty yet their per capita income is less than a dollar. They are too poor to acquire suitable sanitary pads hence resorting to the use of rags from the old clothes which can not fasten and hold the content. At time in a school going age, girls find themselves embarrassed when blood leaks through the rags.
The project will train girls and young mothers in reusable sanitary pads making, tool them and even educate them about menstrual management and hygiene. This will help to increase their access to quality, suitable and adequate sanitary pads.
The project will help to reduce on stigma attached to menstrual phenomenon by 50%, reduce infections related to menstrual bleeding and also improve menstrual management and hygiene hence improved reproductive health.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
