In Uganda, menstruation is largely considered unclean and taboo.  Stigmatized because of a lack of education and hygiene management, girls often choose to, or are forced to, drop out of school due to a lack of sanitary items and the lack of washroom facilities at their schools.

 

In the Karamoja tribe, girls don't even know what a sanitary pad is.  During their menses it is common for the girls to gather on a mound of dirt and sit on the dirt until their menses ends.

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This Is Hope is working to provide girls with reusable hygiene pads and education on proper hygiene.  Many of the girls in the community won't bath regularly for fear of being seen as a prostitute.

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We are currently offering hygiene classes in the community to help educate them in proper bathing and hygiene.

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