See our most recent report from the Women Like Us Center in Kenya. This report shows our initiative to include teen girls in education and stability through staying in school. And our new initiative will take place as we teach these girls, at risk of homelessness, to sew and make their own sanitary towels. A girl who doesn’t have protection during menses eventually drops out of school. The washable sanitary towels (pads) keep a girl in school for at least 2 years.
LENDING A HAND FOR TEEN GIRLS
2020 has been an extremely tough year for Kenyans and the Covid-19 pandemic has only made it worse.
Loropili – a small village in Baringo County has had it worse, the recent floods swept away 35 households rendering many homeless, jobless and subjected to extreme vagaries.
Young women and girls were most affected with cases of teenage pregnancies reportedly on the rise.
In response, a consortium led by Lions Club of Menengai (Nakuru), Women like Us Center and the Tobias Foundation from Nakuru County rallied support from wellwishers and paid a visit those affected on 3rd August 2020.
They were joined by the 1st Lady of Baringo County Mrs. Ivy Kiptis who spearheaded in sensitizing the teenage girls in attendance on how to use sanitary towels and undergarments.
Accompanying her demo were heartful words to the young girls, ‘hii kitu ni ya kazi mbili pekee, kukojoa na kureceive periods’. This would communicate to any clever person that early sex is not at any point advised.
Apart from clothing the girls’ integral body part, they also put food in the empty food baskets of the families affected by the flood. With the current worsening state of the livelihoods and poverty stricken families, this was a heaven sent gesture that left the hearts of the locals smitten.
The event was a success and we were all contented with the happiness painted on the faces of the beneficiaries.