Empower a girl child

Greetings,as introduced my self few days ago,I'm a teacher by profession currently working a teacher leader and a fellow at Teach for uganda, doing the teaching and mentoring program l.

During my teaching,I realised there was too much absenteeism amongst the girl children in my rural school I was teaching.

When I did thorough research,I found that very many girls miss classes during their MESNTRUAL CYCLES as they get shy,lack Sanitary towels,feel demoralised by their parents who donot provide them with  the pads, get unwanted pregnancies, children are forced into marriage etc.

As a feminist,I saw this as a concern,did what I can reaching to different stakeholders until I formed a girl child empowerment club at both my school and in the community at large.

The empowerment club aims at providing the girls menstrual education, ways of preventing unwanted pregnancies, being free to report such incidences of early and forces marriages, giving them monthly Sanitary towels, SENSITISING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE USE OF EDUCATION and EMPOWERING GIRLS the knowledge and skills of making their own reusable sanitary towels.

AS I'm talking now,the club consists of 20 young girls who are the beneficiaries of this project,5 single mothers and they don't only get the pads but also get business knowledge and skills more especially for the single mothers.

We do this specifically to motivate them,to show them they can be something in this world.

EMPOWER THE GIRL CHILD AS THEY ARE THE MOTHERS OF THE NATION.

##RAISE HOPE FOUNDATION UGANDA