OUR CURRENT PROGRAMS
Project Dignity
Keeping Girls in School through provision of Sanitary Towels
This project aims to improve the learning standards of vulnerable girls and keep them in school throughout the year through provision of Sanitary towels and underpants to girl-child. When encouraged, girls have the potential to change negative social norms and pave a brighter future for themselves and their future families.
GEEP KENYA is committed to ensuring that all girls reach their full potential in life and we are grateful to our generous committed partners and friends, who make our work possible. We proudly acknowledge their trust and support.
Specific Objectives
– To provide accurate information on menstruation and how to manage it.
– To improve performance retention rate and self-esteem of girls in school.
– To equip the girls with life skills and HIV prevention skills.
– Support the girls with basic items.
– Support the girls with school fees to ensure they go pursue their education
Keeping Girls in School through provision of Sanitary Towels
The Facts
For a typical poor African family, when there is little money to barely cater for food, fuel and other basic needs, sanitary products is not a priority. Therefore, providing sanitary materials for girls would be a life-changer for numerous reasons including hygiene, health, education and empowerment. When people are dying of war, hunger, diseases and terrorist attacks, pads are the last thing an aid organization or a government would think of. On average, a girl misses 5 school days in a month; this means 20 learning days in a term. A year has 3 terms, this means losing 60 learning days per year. A girl in secondary school who studies for 4 years would lose 240 days cumulatively throughout their high school education. This is about 8 months of school absenteeism within a period of 4 years. This fact also increases the possibility of dropping out of school.
Our solution
Something can be done to improve girl’s access to effective, sustainable, affordable, eco-friendly and safe solutions. An innovative solution to the girl problems can be obtained through sustainable feminine hygiene and pads to avoid
infection, exploitation, shame, low self-esteem, school drop-out, exploitation and stress.
GOALS:
To improve hygiene standards of girls and keep them in school throughout the year and equip them with life skills and HIV prevention skills.
• Advocacy in equal opportunities for boys and girls in terms of education and domestic workload.
• Campaign against early marriage targeting the children, youth, parents, teachers, church leaders and the local administration as stakeholders.
• Lobby the government using Rights Based Approach on developing and implementing policies on institutional support to sexual maturation, girl-child discrimination and children’s rights.
• Facilitate stakeholder participation in the capacity building in basic counseling skills and management of sexual maturation.
• Provision of sanitary materials and underpants to 2000 girls as part of learning materials.