Sanitation and Menstrual Health

Girls miss school during their periods when there is no clean, private place to manage them. Providing sanitary towels and building adequate facilities reduces absenteeism and keeps girls in school through the years when dropout rates rise. The work is delivered through our four connected areas.

Sanitation and
Menstrual Health

Girls miss school during their periods when there is no clean, private place to manage them.
Providing sanitary towels and building adequate facilities reduces absenteeism and keeps girls in school through the years when dropout rates rise. The work is delivered through our four connected areas.

Sub-secort
programming

Butterflies and watering can

Advocacy - Sustaining Sanitation and Menstrual Health

Sanitary towels and school latrines are not one-off needs. They are recurring needs, and they require recurring funding.

Volunteers in a field

Menstrual Health Education - Replacing Silence and Stigma

Shame around menstruation is learned. A girl is not born believing that her period is something to hide, that it makes her unclean, or that it is a subject that cannot be spoken about.

Butterflies and watering can

Sanitary Towel Distribution - Keeping Girls in School During Their Period

The most immediate barrier for a girl during her period is the absence of a sanitary towel.

Volunteers in a field

School WASH Programmes

Providing the Facilities That Make It Work A sanitary towel is not enough if a girl has no private place to use it.