Thursday, July 14, 2016

Menstruation a reason why girls miss school /training centers



During menstruation period girls often feel low mostly because of lack of appropriate material to use during their period’s .This makes girls miss school or training centers to first handle this woman issue. This makes them lag behind their male counter parts most of the time in regard to performance and to involve in sexual relationships so that they can get support from the “boyfriends “.

RIC-NET under the project advancing the dignity of vulnerable children and youth as supported by the Global Fund for Children trains girls in vocational hands on skills, equips them with reproductive health knowledge, supports the babies of the young mothers, provides start up kits for them and equips them entrepreneurial skills to handle their small businesses so that they can earn some income to improve on their lives that have been hardened by conflict.
Girls at one of the centers in Rwamwanja were provided with sanitary material to help them handle their menstrual periods conveniently as they attend their vocational training s. The girls were happy and they said that they will always attend their classes as some time they miss because they do not have the material to use during their periods
 Girls pose with some of the items they received