Caring Hands

05/11/2023

Our journey so far...
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05/11/2023

Our campaign in May this year. We empowered girls in Government Secondary School, Bwari, Abuja to make their own sanitary pads. We also taught them about personal and.menstrual hygiene.

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05/11/2023

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Thursday March 23, 2023Speakers:Marina Berbiec, Global Education ClusterJulie Bara & Caroline Haar, Global WASH ClusterJennifer Chase, Global Protection Clus...

05/11/2023

We stand with this message from
Menstrual Hygiene Day - Global -

It’s not acceptable that because of a natural bodily function women and girls continue to be prevented from getting an education, earning an income and fully and equally participating in everyday life.

While Menstrual Hygiene Day is on 28 May, our team and our partners work all year round to:

-Break the taboos and end the stigma surrounding menstruation
-Raise awareness about the challenges regarding access to menstrual products, education about menstruation and period-friendly sanitation facilities
-Mobilise the funding required for action at scale

All of this contributes to our overarching goal: to build a world where no one is held back because they menstruate by 2030.

12/10/2023

Happy international day of the girl! In honour of Prof. Catherine Acholonu, through her NGO, Let's Help Humanitarian Foundation, we will be giving out free sanitary pads this month to girls from very low income homes, girls affected by crises/conflicts, and school girls who cannot afford pads.

Catherine Acholonu, my mother, stood for many things. One of them was empowering and dignifying children; boys and girls, and women.

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08/03/2023

In the second quarter of 2022 it constituted 18% of the country's GDP. However, the ICT sector remains dominated by men with very few women able to participate.

This year's International Women’s Day globally celebrates the women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education. It also draws attention to the ge see gaps in digital and innovative technologies, and the importance of protecting of protecting women and girls from online and ICT related gender-based violence.

This year's theme is "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”.

04/03/2023

Opobo, Rivers State last December. Our emergency hygeine items - sanitary pads, and clothes, provided urgent relief to 50 survivors of the 2022 flood in Nigeria.

Thank you Give Back Nigeria for working with us to make this a reality.

04/03/2023

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Kenya's Gloria Orwoba, who campaigns against "period poverty", says she was aware her trousers were stained.

04/03/2023

, 17-20 July 2023

Taking place in Kigali, Rwanda, Women Deliver 2023 is one of the largest multi-sectoral conferences on . This year, and the are forming a Task Group to advocate for MHH at .

29/12/2022

"The pads shared with us will ease off the December - January burden of buying pad", we were told.

Lack of menstrual health information or products, and lack of s*x education is fueling gender based violence and teenage pregnancies. Nigeria currently has one of the worst s*xual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally.

Those in rural communities suffer more as they practically have no information and product access resulting to a lot of SRHR issues.

This December, 46 girls and 2 young women were made more knowledgeable about s*xual and reproductive health, teenage pregnancy, menstrual hygiene, and gender based violence. They were also gifted with a sanitary pad, each. We supported Equity Watch Initiative in Ajuona Obukpa - Nsukka, Enugu State, to make this possible.

Many of them had never participated in any discussions regarding menstruation or s*x education. They resolved to take the conversation home and share with their family members. It was also their first time of sharing this type of conversation among themselves and it created a kind of bond amongst them. Some of them were receiving pads for free for the first time too.

They were willing to join in future programs and resolved to become ambassadors in educating others about SRHR. There is a need to focus more attention in rural communities, in sharing information about menstrual health. On our part, we intend to provide more lasting solutions to the women and girls with reusable menstrual products.

29/12/2022

Photos from our support to Equity Watch Initiative's International Day of the Girl - 11 October 2022 in Enugu State. During the menstrual hygiene awareness, we provided sanitary pads to 50 secondary school girls from University of Nigeria Secondary School Nsukka, Comprehensive Secondary School Edem Ani and Community Secondary School, Obollo Etiti.

We are happy we put smiles on their faces💕

29/12/2022

On 28th October 2022, we supported Pietan Caring Mission for the Poor in their sensitization programme for 33 women and girls from a rural community in Enugu State. Special thanks to Sr. Judith Nwodo (founder of Pietan Caring Mission for the Poor).

We found out that due to being laughed at and mocked by men and boys during their periods, cultural beliefs that menstruation is a shameful thing, in addition to not having menstrual products to use, many women and girls feel very shy and uncomfortable talking about their periods or speaking up about the help they need.

We will continue to work to normalize periods, for the healthy living of those who menstruate.