Help Girls and Women Empowerment Network (GWEN) by sanitary pads for adolescent girls from vulnerable backgrounds
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Hygiene items
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Sanitary pads
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Help Girls and Women Empowerment Network (GWEN) by sanitary pads for adolescent girls from vulnerable backgrounds
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GWEN is kindly appealing for a donation of sanitary pads as an in-kind donation to support its work in assisting adolescent girls from vulnerable backgrounds, including survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence and girls with disabilities. Your donation would go a long way in uplifting the lives of young rural women, while helping GWEN realize its goal of ending period poverty. As a result of their inability to afford proper menstrual products, many girls have no choice but to rely on crude, improvised materials, such as scraps of old clothing, wads of toilet paper, or newspaper to absorb their menstrual flow, which puts them at risk of acquiring infections. In the most severe cases, girls resort to using corncobs or are sexually exploited in exchange for pads out of desperation for sanitary supplies. Girls are missing school during that time of the month because they have no means of managing their flow. Because Girls’ education, confidence, and dignity are important to us, we are appealing for your help. Consider donating a pack or more of sanitary pads. Your donation will not only make her periods bearable; you will put a smile on her face, restore her confidence, keep her in school; helping her excel.
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