Red Belt Movement
Nonprofit Organization Management - Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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What we want to achieve?The Red Belt Movement aims to provide girls with environmentally friendly sanitary products, as well as provide girls with access to ablution blocks that allow girls to dispose of sanitary products safely and maintain menstrual hygiene. In addition, we aim to encourage all individuals to talk openly about periods so that girls no longer feel embarrassed or ashamed of their periods. The Red Belt Movement are #Makingadifference.Period.The Red Belt Movement's first initiative is the independent school outreach programme, which aims to encourage independent schools in South Africa to purchase sanitary products for their girls and for girls at a less fortunate school of their choice. The independent school outreach programme will ensure that all schoolgirls are able to have access to sanitary products and ablution blocks, allowing all girls to attend school on their period and have access to essential Water, Sanitation and Hygiene facilities.Why we do what we do?The Red Belt Movement wants to tackle period poverty and the perpetual impacts that period poverty has on girl's education, self-esteem, and prospects. One in ten girls in Africa miss school because they do not have access to safe, hygienic sanitary products, or because there are not safe, private toilets to use at school. Girls suffering from period poverty are often forced to use unsafe and unhygienic alternative to sanitary products such as dirty rags, old socks, toilet paper, etc. In Kenya alone, approximately 50 percent of school-age girls do not have access to sanitary products.In addition, there is a stigma surrounding periods, girls often feel ashamed or embarrassed of their periods with some even fearing their period.Period poverty does not just impact those who are unable to access sanitary products, those who have limited access to sanitary products use tampons and pads for prolonged periods of time, putting them at risk to infections.
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