GES Project Challenge: Sanitary Pads for Ugandan Girls

Published April 20, 2009 @ 02:28PM PT

Each weekday between now and May 8th, I'll be posting one or two project profiles of students participating in the annual Global Engagement Summit-GlobalGiving Project Challenge. The Challenge is a chance for students from around the world to raise money for and spread awareness about their projects. Students that mobilize also have a chance for additional matching resources.

Affordable sanitary pads for 1500 Ugandan girls

Summary: This project will develop sustainable production of locally produced eco-friendly sanitary pads and provide reproductive health education to 1500 adolescent Ugandan girls keeping them in school.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries: Many rural Ugandan girls drop out of school at puberty because of a lack of sanitary pads, teen pregancy and early marriage. Only 38% of today's kindergarten girls in Uganda will complete primary school. Only 13% will attend secondary school. This project will improve access to education for poor rural girls in Kabarole District, Western Uganda through peer education programs, improved sanitation and the self-sustainable production of locally produced, ecologically friendly sanitary pads.

Activites: By developing the economically sustainable production of cheap, ecologically sound sanitary pads and by providing training to student leaders who will educate their peers about reproductive health we will prevent girls from dropping out of school.

Resources:

Kasiisi Project (http://www.kasiisiproject.org/)

The Kasiisi Project Vanderbilt (http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/9642)

Kasiisi Project introducrory videot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8reaHQlST60)

MakaPads (MakaPads)

If you're interested in supporting this work, Tweet or blog about it or visit the project homepage on GlobalGiving.

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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.