Malawi Menstrual Management Project 2025

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Benjamin Cavallini and 3 others are organizing this fundraiser.

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Please contribute to MMM and our goal for 2025! MMM: Malawi Menstrual Management

MMM has been raising funds to support girls at the Mkhula school in Malawi since 2022 (8,812€ raised so far)!!! Before 2022, no girl from the school had ever accessed high school. Now 10 have gone to High School and 33 to Community School. We will soon know the stats for our 2024 campaign.

For 2025, we will cover the needs of the newly menstruating girls and follow-up on those that have been to High School and Community School. The mission is planned for March 2025.

We provide the girls with menstrual underwear, soap. ,menstrual education and perhaps most importantly, instill the expectation that they should continue attending primary (and secondary) school despite having their periods.

€13= 1 menstrual underwear

€39= the menstrual needs of 1 girl for years

€117= the menstrual needs of 3 girls for years

If you want to contribute to the 2025 MMM Project, please donate here. We will keep you updated!

Background:

Although the same number of girls and boys start first grade at the Mkhula School in the Nhkotakota district of Malawi, there are virtually no girls left by the time they start secondary school. The lack of appropriate menstrual management materials means that girls miss school during their period: an average of 4 days a month. As these absences accumulate year after year, girls begin to lag behind at school and finally dropout.

A simple conversation between friends and a brainstorm about how this could be avoided, led to the MMM pilot test in 2022. With the collaboration of Cocoro Intim (a manufacturer of menstrual underwear), Mónica took advantage of her work as a dermatologist with Dermalawi to provide menstrual underwear for 24 girls at the Mkhula school. The school community and the Sacred Family of Bordeaux nuns worked with the girls before Monica's arrival, and they welcomed her with open arms!

The pilot test consisted of providing the underwear and carrying out surveys at 0, 3 and 6 months. The results confirmed that menstrual underwear were adapted to the needs of the girls at Mkhula and that school absenteeism had been practically eliminated: from an average of 4 to 0.2 days/month. This success exceeded all expectations!