Education In Menstrual Pads

Lotus Flower Community School offers free education and community health to various communities in Ndola as a means to alleviating poverty. Additionally, the school wants to improve the education targeting girls to remain and complete school by providing free and proper menstrual pads to 10,700 girls in 15 schools in Ndola. Like they say, “When you educate a woman or girl and once, she becomes pivotal to development, the entire system receives a ripple effect of the central development from that educated woman.” The mense pads would help pearl girls avoid using wrong materials like clothes, banana leaves, newspapers or toilet paper that has equally contributed to their skin irritation and urinary tract infections and if this persists, it can lead to hormonal dysfunction, damaging immune system, malfunctioning of the thyroid, cancer in the ovaries as well as infertility in women, among other issues. 

Currently, we are requesting for donations that would be used to distributing hygienic sanitary kits to girls that are recommended by the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health that would be bought from “DaysforGirls”. These mense pads are convenient and would be changed even in school bathrooms, swim with them, maintains vaginal PH and after use, would be disposed-off while at school in toilet bins placed in the female toilets. This, eventually, would put a control against throwing the used products anyhow, for such waste are hazardous, and their toxic chemicals may be dangerous to groundwater and soil which end up contributing to loss of soil fertility if not well-disposed. Afterwards, we would establish a workshop as the long and sustainable measure, which would be producing locally made sanitary pads and run by the women to offer self-reliance skills and employment. Once pads are distributed to girls in schools, (that is three boarding schools for the girls (Ndola Girls Technical School, Lions Combined co-Boarding School for the Blind and Fatima Girls School), two day-schools for the girls (Learning Challenged Girls School, plus Sathya Girls Trust School), and the other ten schools are day and co-education.), the surplus from the washable sanitary kits, would be sold to the general women membership for income realization. Therefore, we would be grateful to your contribution as Lotus Flower Community School of an executive of 10 officer bearers with a composition of 8 females and 2 males, promotes a girl-child education and as feminist activists, this project stands to empowering women as well. For that, we render a huge acknowledgement to all participants for being part of this gender development. 

This project is supported by the Maecenata Foundation, Munich/Berlin: