Changing Attitudes & Instilling Confidence
Many teenage girls and young women in Rwanda lack appropriate sanitary protection during their monthly cycle. As a result they are unable to leave home for their normal activities. This results in loss of schooling, loss of working hours, loss of income and loss of dignity.
Lifelink24 seek to end these losses by providing Freedom packs of washable sanitary protection.
There is great opportunity to reach many girls in the community and within the schools when supplies are ready. Currently some of the girls on the sponsorship programme have received teaching and are taking part in the trial along with single mothers on the sewing project.
We have developed a plan to produce these packs in partnership with the sewing project. This will meet the needs of both those who produce and those who receive them.
Through donations LifeLInk24 will finance the materials and wages for ladies sewing these items. Packs will then be given to young girls and women in the community, giving them the freedom to live life to the full.
This is where we provide freedom packs alongside teaching on the female monthly cycle, using visual aids created for teaching by another organisation. We are grateful for kind permission to use these.
Our hope is to change girls’ attitude in terms of how they think of themselves and believe they should be treated.
In a community where rape is rife, we aim to fight back against abuse by instilling in girls a confidence and an ability to say no, alongside the teaching of their value as a child of God. We plan to reach as many girls as possible within the community through school and community projects.
“The provision of a freedom pack will enable girls to stay in school and continue their vital education and give them dignity”
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