Uganda

To address the issue of menstrual health, and the challenges women face with regards to access, hygiene and socio-cultural stigma, Women’s Global Empowerment Fund launched the Healthy Periods Initiative – improving health, creating livelihoods.

 

The Healthy Periods Initiative drives economic and socio-cultural change through enterprise and education. From a grassroots level, we inform, educate and provide resources to assist in the development of successful social enterprises that provide safe and sanitary resources for all women in their communities.

 

As of May 2017, Uganda will be home to more than 1.3 million refugees and asylum seekers, mostly from neighboring South Sudan. WGEF is responding to this crisis by supplying Lucky Girls Sanitary Pads to young girls and women in Bolore and Pagirinya refugee settlements. These 2 settlements host 36,000 people, of which 72% are young girls, women and children between 9 to 18 years. WGEF provides 7,000 Lucky Girl Sanitary Pads each month to young girls and women, in addition to critical information on menstrual health.

In an effort to provide this essential product to other vulnerable groups, Women’s Global supplies the Gulu Women’s Prison and local schools.

To learn more about how you can support HPI and WGEF head here https://wgefund.org