SANITARY TOWELS DONATION CLUB

African girls miss school every month – just because they are girls. The problem is a lack of affordable sanitary towels. Poor families cannot afford sanitary towels or even underwear and feeding their children takes priority. Many girls are forced to use unsanitary rags, animal skins and even chicken feathers as protection while they menstruate. We have even heard of young women digging holes in the ground to sit over in isolation all day.

This makes the prospect of going to school while menstruating impossible. Missing a week’s schooling each month has a massive detrimental impact on a child’s progress and girls fall so far behind that they drop out of school completely, often before they have completed Primary School.

The result: a lack of education, hope and future – for girls and their families.

Education All Month, Every Month offers a solution: it provides girls with sanitary protection, underwear and a monthly social education program at school, enabling them to attend school all month, every month.

A donation of just USD 6 per month will ensure a Kenyan girl receives sanitary towels and underwear, and can participate in a regular discussion forum, giving hope, opportunity and prospects for a brighter future.