Iganga schools join hands for a girl child during the menstrual run
Busoga region , adolescent girls face significant challenges to managing menstruation hygienically and with safety, dignity, and confidence.
Every month, many girls around the world menstruate, however, only three in ten can afford to buy decent menstrual products and as a result, some girls drop out of school due to the stigma they face during their periods, while others
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miss classes.
Period poverty is a global issue where women not only lack access to affordable menstrual tools, but they also lack clean toilets and water more so in the rural areas.
In 2015, while on the campaign trail in Lango sub-region, President Museveni promised that if elected back into power, his government would provide free sanitary towels to school-going girlsas one of the ways to boost the education
of the girl child.
However, in 2017, the government pack tracked on the pledge, saying there were no funds to fulfil the promise. This left many girls, who could notafford menstrual products, out in the cold.
But to mitigate this, girls from giant schools in Busoga have joined hands through a menstrual girl child run with an aim of collecting funds to open a menstrual hub.
According to Watti Nelly Sanyu, a student leader at Iganga SS told Nile post that there objective to collect funds aiming to construct a menstrual hub at the school premises where they will be making pads and give them for free to rural schools.
Monica Kiira Nakaziba the head teacher Iganga SS told our reporter Teven that as the school, they have already have already aquared space for the menstrual hub and they now collecting funds to construct and buy electrical sewing machines while help them produce more pads for girls.
"I want to thank the schools around busoga that have decided to our this cause and I believe we shall make it, being a mother I know the pain what girls more so from the areas go through during the menstrual periods. Nakaziba added.
Dauda Kato the deputy resident district commissioner Iganga says that this will help reduce on the school dropouts in the region and ask well-wisher to join the campaign.
