Crowned Girl
Keep the teenage girls in school.
Project Description
Ladies C.L.C is raising funds towards the Crowned Girl Project to provide free sanitary pads to female students in rural and arid areas of Kenya. The Initiative will distribute the pads to girls in
more than 1000 schools,both primary and secondary schools. At the primary
level, these will encompass girls from Class 5 to Class 8. The Initiative will
organize trainings and question-and-answer sessions to give girls a forum to
discuss related issues.
Female students face great challenges in terms of hygiene and sanitation.
For girls who are menstruating, these problems compound the difficulties
posed by the inability to afford sanitary towels as well as cultural taboos around menstruation. As a result, many girls miss on average four days of school every month which is over a month in a year, meaning they fall behind in class and sometimes even drop out of school altogether. This is an added challenge to the already existing problems that lead to the high dropout rate of female students in primary and secondary schools. The main problems faced by women and girls are:
The expense of commercial sanitary pads;
Absenteeism where girls stay at home rather than attending school when menstruating;
Unhygienic ways to dry menstrual materials;
Inadequate waste disposal facilities;
Lack of privacy for changing menstrual materials;
Leakage from poor-quality protection materials;
The lack of resources for washing such as soap;
Limited education about the facts of menstruation;
Limited access to counseling and guidance;
Fear caused by cultural myths;
Embarrassment and low self esteem;
And the unsupportive attitudes of some men.
Distribution of reusable pads has radically proved to create a world where women and girls can step boldly into the promise of their future. The goal of the Crowned Girl Project is to empower the vulnerable girls through provision of reusable pads and capacity building on menstrual hygiene management and reproductive health for improved performance and self esteem. This will be
done through distribution of reusable sanitary pads as well as ensuring provision of menstrual hygiene management education and facilities to girls in primary schools in Kenya. By acquiring knowledge on menstrual
hygiene management, the overall health status of the girls will be enhanced as myths and misconceptions that surround puberty and menstruation will also be demystified.
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- ABOUT LADIES C.L.C
- Ladies Cry Learn Conquer (CLC) is an organization providing open spaces for women of different races and ethnicities, as we address gender inequality issues, women empowerment, authenticity, day to day struggles of women through an inspirational and motivational talk show offering emotional and social support as well as economic empowerment.
- Our mission is to empower all self-identifying women with information and skills to work their way out of oppression, care for their families and strengthen their community.
- Our vision is to provide women empowerment opportunities, gender equality, emotional and
social support for women in the society at large.
Our founder is Ms. Joy Irungu who is a media personality and professional counselling
psychologist. Joy underwent her fair share of pain and managed to turn it into power. the
experience birthed the zeal to empower women and girls to learn through their life
experiences and come out as conquerors. Our team has 11 active members who also are
professionals in various fields. - OBJECTIVES
- Our goal is to educate teenage girls on sexual and reproductive health including sanitation hygiene.
- Our objectives are:
- 1. To make sanitary towels accessible to the girls to make sure they don’t miss out from school.
- 2. To offer psycho-social support to teenagers affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and on dealing with disability stigmatization.
- 3. To rescue the teenage girls from early marriages as they get childhood trauma therapy.
- 4. To rescue girls from family rejection as a result of teenage pregnancies, giving them an opportunity to go back to school.
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