Menstruation is not just a health problem in Kenya but a national catastrophe facing girls from low income households like Kenya. The program is based on 4 Sustainable Development Goals e.g. Goal 1No poverty, Goal 3Good Health and Well being,Goal,4 Quality Education and Goal 6 Clean Water and Sanitation.
Over One Million Girls in Kenya miss school 5 to 6 days every month during their menstruation because they are too poor to afford sanitary towel. Put in context a girls who is absent from school from school due to their periods for five days per month loses 15 learning days which is equal to 2 weeks of learning in every school term
BJF supports these girls from poor households with annual packs of sanitary towels provided to them through their schools to reduce absenteeism from school leading to negative education outcomes
The program wishes well wisher to contribute just one dollar and keep two girls from poor families in school.
Goals and objectives
The program aims to do the following:
- Reduce the girl child school dropout due to lack of sanitary towels.
- Educate teenage girls on puberty, hygiene menstruation and how to physically and psychologically handle periods.
- Eliminate myths, taboos and misinformation that people in such communities have about girls during their menstrual period.