PROJECT BACKGROUND:
The Girls Sanitary Pads Support project is a Community Based project with great significance of a positive influence on the girl child on their health and school life and retention in schools. We are looking forward to reaching adolescent girls especially school- going girls in upper primary and secondary levels from disadvantaged social and economic backgrounds starting puberty with a target to provide sanitary towels to them. Girls from such families that can’t afford to provide for ably all the necessities including the little fees they pay in rural schools find it impossible to ask for money to buy pads during their periods and resort to sugar daddies as an alternative to give them money to buy pads because feel too shy to share such moments with the parents as some parents are not willing to listen and rarely hold meetings with their children. The Initiative will organize trainings and question-and-answer sessions to give girls a forum to discuss related issues along with female teachers and other staff in the schools. Other forums will be utilized to bridge the gap that exists between the girls and their parents on menstrual debates, girls and boys to ensure the program’s effectiveness and longevity as well as the confidence and empowerment of the adolescent girls. By providing knowledge on menstrual hygiene management and reproductive health, the status of the girls will be enhanced as myths and misconceptions that surround puberty and menstruation will also be addressed.