1 in 10 girls in Africa do not attend school while menstruating. In Kenya in 2015, 80 % of girls didn't know what their period was before it started , 65 % of women could not afford period products, and 1 in 10 15-year-old girls were having sex to get money to pay for sanitary ware. Fewer than 12 % of teachers in Uganda are female. According to Rosemary Seninde, Wakiso Woman Member of Parliament in Uganda, up to 75 % of young girls dropout of school before sitting Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) over lack of sanitary requirements. 

Families in East Africa earn 287 USD per month on average according to the Uganda National Household Survey 2012/13. Women's health products cost 1-2 % of a family's monthly income for one women or girl to live a normal life while on her period.

We are a group of eight women working on Masters or PhDs in engineering, physics, or chemistry from Uganda, Ethiopia, Israel, Georgia (USA) and California (USA). We all met in December 2018 in Kampala, Uganda at the Joint Undertaking for an African Materials Institute (JUAMI 2018) and decided to come together to help other girls in East Africa also reach levels of higher education.

Help us bring feminine products to girls in East Africa to help girls attend school 4 weeks per month.

5 USD = 1 month of continuous schooling for 1 girl
10 USD = 2 months of continuous schooling for 1 girl
60 USD = 1 year of continuous schooling for 1 girl
120 USD = 1 year of continuous schooling for 2 girls

Sincerely,
Nabadda Esther
Bisirikirwa ​Lydia
Julie Fornaciari
Adi Kama
Namazzi Mercy
Shemsu Fayza
​Rebecca Glaser
Danielle Butts

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