Increase Skills & Use of Pads by 200 Girls, Kamuli

This project will build a skills lab in Kamuli and train adolescents to make sanitary pads and hence improving the menstrual health of 200 women and girls and preventing them from giving away their bodies in exchange for pads and hence reducing the sky-rocketing number of teen pregnancies and HIV infections among girls and married women.

Some of the activities that were carried out in the previous quarter included:         

a)      Staff Training on adolescent-friendly services

b)      Youth Leaders Meeting with the medical officer & Operations Officer

c)       Sensitization of adolescents

d)      Planning for the pads making workshop in January 2022

The program has reached 45 youth in the last three months. We conducted orientation training for the CFU staff in Nawansaso in November 2021. This training involved eight staff who were to help work with the youth. Secondly, we engaged seven youth leaders in Nawansaso parish and other neighboring parishes. These leaders were trained in mid-November 2021, on mobilization skills and communication and that was oriented on the project of making pads and how they will be integrated into the facility activities.

Other activities that are planned for include:

a)      Sensitization of about 30 adolescent girls and boys about this skills program at CFU. This will be conducted quarterly in the coming year of 2022.

b)      We then plan to conduct three sessions on how to make menstrual pads per quarter. A total of 12 sessions are expected to be carried out during the coming year.

c)     We shall carry out campaigns to raise awareness about this issue on social media and within the communities in Kamuli.

In the coming year, we hope to skill several (120) adolescent girls in making pads and improve not only their livelihoods and their communities but also their menstrual health.