【Educational Environment】Community meetings based on awareness of re-usable sanitary pad

This is the second phase of the project on ‘Improvement of school environment to combat Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) challenges to Stop Adolescent Girls’ School Dropouts in Uganda’ supported by funds from the Lush Charity Bank of Lush Japan, Co., Ltd..

SORAK explaining the advantages of reusable sanitary pads

At this time, we will report about Activity 3-2 ‘Conduct 13 parish community meetings based on providing reusable sanitary pad information and awareness raising’

The meetings were intended to promote the use of SORAK-made reusable sanitary pads　as well as to make parents/guardians more aware about their roles and responsibilities in promoting MHM among girls attending school in order to reduce on girl’s absenteeism’s as a result of menstruation.

Topics

• Brief overview of menstrual hygiene management
• Roles of parents in the promotion of menstrual hygiene management for girls attending school
• Introduction of SORAK-made reusable sanitary pads
• Showing the advantages of the reusable sanitary pads
• Applicability/How to use

Demonstrating how a reusable sanitary pad is used with a nicker

Participants attentively learning how to use a SORAK-made reusable pad

　

 Outcome

• At the end of the awareness-raising meetings, participants were able to commit to proper menstrual hygiene management, in addition to knowing the dangers/risks girls are exposed to while using unhygienic menstrual materials.
• Parents who participated in the awareness-raising meetings acknowledged their roles and responsibilities of providing materials for their daughters during menstruation. Some pledged to provide support to their children during menstruation.
• Fifteen (15) promotional sets of reusable sanitary pads were sold during the awareness meetings. SORAK also donated 5 sets of reusable sanitary pads to active participants.
• Thirteen (13) community-based active SORAK sales representatives were successfully identified to find clients in need of reusable pads. This will also help to provide feedback regarding SORAK-made reusable pads from users to SORAK for making quality improvements.

Click on the following link to view the report on ‘Activity:3-2: Conduct 13 parish community meetings based on providing reusable sanitarypad information and awareness raising‘

*This project is supported by Lush Japan Co., Ltd.

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