Pad in the bag!

Menstruation can be a significant financial burden and an inconvenience. It can be an unbearable hardship that drastically affects girls’ ability to attend school and eventually her future. Access to education for girls can be improved by increasing access to sanitary wear amongst other.

Through Wakati Trust we always support our girls not only with sanitary wear, we also provide menstrual hygiene lessons.Some of them do not even know how to use pads.The initiative is called Pad in the bag where we say by putting a pad in the bag of these girls, we are increasing school attendance thus learning time. Absentism during menstruation is quite high.

We teach them how to manage menstruation in a way that doesn’t put them at risk of infections that will go untreated. It’s about reproductive health, and keeping girls healthy through puberty so that they have a greater chance of surviving childbirth, and so that their future babies are born healthy. This knowledge also helps to keep girls safe from unwanted pregnancies and they get to understand the connection between menstruation and fertility.

Catch them whilst they're young too

We believe in the training up a child as they grow notion. Instilling values that will help them grow responsibly. We take time to do school visits where we get a chance of having open dialogues with students on different topics like careers, sex, relationships, health, school perfomance, abuse, child marriages etc. We also encourage students to do something about the needs they see in their communities.

Amongst the school visits we do, ( as seen in the picture above), we had the chance of talking to Eastern Heights Students and we were emphasizing to them that beginning with the #EndInMind means starting each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing proactive muscles to make things happen.

We handed over sanitary wear to their Interact Club for them to take to the vulnerable girls they support.Boys joined in too and we had lots of fun.

This is an ongoing initiative and we are always open to partner with any individuals and or organisations.

#PadInTheBag

#WakatiItsTime

#Lighting_global_generations