Programs
RUMPs for Rural Girls
Re-usable Menstrual Pads (RUMPS) for Rural Girls
Re-Usable Menstrual Pads (RUMPs) for Rural girls’ Program
Dwona Initiative believes that education provides an opportunity to amplify one’s voice in society and fulfill one’s potential, we sought out to engage in impact programs that create safe environments for young girls to keep and complete school excellently
Menstruation is a natural and biological process that occurs in every woman in their reproductive ages and about 1.8 billion people menstruate globally. However, due to period poverty and stigma especially in rural settings, many girls and women perceive it as a limitation and burden. It is one of the biggest factors that affects girls especially rural girls school attendance, retention and completion rate. With an effort to remove this barrier to their education, we started the Re Usable Menstrual Pads (RUMPs) for Rural Girls program that aims to support rural girls and child mothers with sustainable menstrual materials and value-based children’s books as well as proper menstruation hygiene information in an effort to keep them in school.
Programs
Re-Usable Menstrual Pads (RUMPs) for Rural girls’ Program
It uses a play-based educational model to teach rural school-going girls, boys and child-mothers about proper menstrual hygiene in effort to curb the educational inequality gap between girls and boys and the class absenteeism rates of rural girls caused by period stigma and poverty.
This program focuses on rural school going girls and child-mothers with a secondary target group of school going boys and drop- outs from rural communities across Uganda with a high school drop out rate of the girl child.
We establish Menstrual Hygiene Management Clubs in our partner schools where school going girls from the school and the community receive sustainable menstrual products, proper menstrual information, learn how to make re-usable menstrual pads and reading materials.
Our current partner schools are in Nwoya district – Northern Uganda, Wakiso district, Mukono district, Kayunga district, and Kampala.
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