MENSTRUAL AND SANITARY PAD EDUCATION
MENSTRUAL AND SANITARY PAD EDUCATION
Most of girls living in rural areas in Tanzania are Unable to afford or access proper menstrual products. many girls and women rely on crude, improvised materials like scraps of old clothing, pieces of foam mattress, toilet paper, leaves, and banana fibres to manage their menstruation – all of which are unhygienic , ineffective, and uncomfortable. This is hardly what we would consider not a healthy “solution” and promotes sickness and disease. AYMO exists because we believe menstruation should not be a barrier for any woman, anywhere. Women are the backbone of our societies and they deserve access to safe, healthy, and dignified solutions to managing their periods natural body functions, and the freedom to rise to their dreams and achieve their true potential. In response for this to achieve these lifegoals for women of all ages, AYMO will provide free education for schoolgirls and out school women that cover educate and train in the following categories: -
1. Reproduction System Functions in Male and Female Bodies Overview
2. Menstrual Cycles: Phases, Functions, and Purposes Discussed in Detail
3. Menstruation Purpose and Function in Reproduction in Detail
4. Menstrual Cycle Tracking for Health and Convenience Individually and for Community
5. Menstrual Kits: Introduction, Instructions for Use, and Best Practices for Sanitation and Hygiene
6. Provision of sanitary pads for 4000 schoolgirls and women’s
7. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Description; Dangers; Recognizing Signs; Discussion of
Effects Now and Later .
Background of the Project.
2.1 The Organization
2.1.1 AFYA YAKO MUHIMU ORGANIZATION
2.1.1.1 First registered with Ministry of community development gender children and elder as a Non-Government organization on 11 August 2020, we operate in villages of Tanzania to give empowering education, training, and support to village communities free of cost to participants.
2.1.1.2 General Goals and Methods
2.1.1.2.1 Educate, train, and support village residents in subject matter vital to their immediate and long-term health including physical, mental, emotional, and social subjects.
2.1.1.2.2 Holistic-Participatory approach to support vulnerable youth, young adults, and parents in decisions to participate in activities of personal and community development.
2.1.1.2.3 Provide feminine hygiene products to young ladies free of charge who participate in our Menstrual Education classes and eventually supply these to all vulnerable ladies and women in the villages on a periodic basis
2.1.1.3 Benefits to Tanzanian Population and Government
2.1.1.3.1 Increasing health in village communities results in reduction of disease, sickness, unplanned pregnancies, and reluctance to proceed to higher education
2.1.1.3.2 Increased population health results in lower government costs supporting health and education of village populations thus benefits all Tanzanian citizens.
4 2.2 In-Progress and Completed Projects
2.2.1 Menstrual Education and Training classes have been provided, free of charge, for 250 girls during October 2020 and January 2021
2.2.1.1 Classes were conducted in Selela, Engaruka, and Engutoto Villages
2.2.1.3 AYMO intends to provide Menstrual Education classes to 15,100 more girls in Monduli, Ngorongoro, Longido, and Simanjiro within a two-year period.
2.2.2 AYMO has achieved these ambitious and growing efforts with support
from Maji, Inc., a U.S. Non-profit organization formed exclusively to help
vulnerable Tanzanian village populations in this and other vital projects .
