Menstruation education

Empowerment through education!

In 2024, we started together with the Young Jewels Fountation a hygiene project with the focus on menstruation, education and provision of pads. Menstruation is associated with a great stigma in the rural Maasai region.

Education is essential to ensure school attendance, but also to prevent trauma and eliminate stigma. We have educated 1.299 girls from over 190 schools and provided them with 3 months worth of pdas. The next step is to do this on a regular basis and expand it even further within the region.

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The problem of silence

Stigmatization and shame related to menstruation are widespread in Kenya. Only 12% of girls feel comfortable receiving information on this topic from their mothers, and only 50% are willing to speak openly about menstruation. This means that girls are often unprepared and uninformed when their bleeding starts, and do not know what is healthy or normal.

What we have achieved so far

With the support of the wonderful Young Jewels Foundation, a volunteer organization based in Nairobi, we have developed an interactive, engaging curriculum to educate girls aged 11 to 20 about their menstrual health.

By dividing the Kilimanjaro-Amboseli-Tsavo region into nine zones, we conducted a full-day training in each zone, followed by a snack and the provision of hygiene supplies for three months. At the end of our program, we were able to reach 1,299 young girls from 190 different schools and encourage them to go back to their communities and schools to share the lessons with the girls who could not participate. Although the participants were shy at first, they opened up by the end of the training days and sang encouraging songs.

Our way to overcome stigma

This is just the first step on the Big Girls Foundation's journey toward promoting menstrual health in the region . We plan to continue the educational program through regular visits to schools in the area. Changing mindsets takes time and continuous education.
If you would also like to contribute to this program, you can donate to the Big Girls Foundation. With just 25 euros, you can provide four girls with sanitary napkins for a year.

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You choose an annual donation amount and we ensure that it goes towards the provision of hygiene products and education.

You will receive an annual donation receipt for your tax return

In our annual report we also inform you about the activities of the Big Girls Foundation, the scholarship holders and our successes

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