In Ugandan schools today, most of the young girls cannot afford to buy the current disposable sanitary pads that are available on the market. This project is aimed at making and distributing reusable sanitary pads to adolescent girls to help them stay in school. This project will also train beneficiaries to make reusable sanitary pads with the available raw materials in their communities.

The consistent failure of young girls to afford to buy the available sanitary pads on the market has made them use unhygienic materials, leading to uncertain infections. Failure to get pads keeps them away from school for days every month and this has made many to make wrong decisions such as early sex, which leads to unwanted pregnancies and early marriages as well.

The project will set up a production unit that will train beneficiaries and produce reusable sanitary pads to maintain adolescent girls in school. The project will also teach all the proper menstrual hygiene procedures to the beneficiaries. This project will help distribute reusable sanitary pads for over 9,000 adolescent girls in schools every year. One pack of reusable pads can be used throughout the year.

Most adolescent girls in Uganda have found difficulties while at school during their menstrual days because they lack sanitary pads. The current sanitary pads that are on the market, are expensive and disposable. This is also the same problem affecting most schools today as they find it hard to buy, stock, and keep them ready for girls experiencing their periods.

As a result, most adolescent girls have resorted to using unhygienic materials, leading to uncertain infections and producing an awkward stench. This has indefinitely made them uncomfortable because the materials used do not offer them enough protection while at school. Eventually, this has led to too much absenteeism of most adolescent girls in schools today, something that has affected their performance.

Failure to acquire pads can lure girls into means of getting money to buy them, which in return result into early sex and unwanted pregnancies, hence dropout.

The project will set up a production unit that will produce and distribute reusable sanitary pads to maintain adolescent girls to stay in school. The project will also teach the proper menstrual hygiene procedures to the beneficiaries in the communities.

This project will control the number of adolescent girls in school. The project will not only keep the girl child in school during her menstrual days, but also improve on the overall performance. With the production unit in place, the beneficiaries will be able to get the required knowledge and skills of making reusable sanitary pads which will help them make a living for themselves and their families at large.