Dala (home) Girls Fellowship
Project Host
Gender Dialogues Ke,
Revenue
USD 773.57
Charity Number
Project aims
Zero Tripple Period Threats (Period Poverty, Period Stigma and Period Pain), among 9-15 in-school adolescent girls from rural settings of Nyanza by 2030.
Project description
The barriers to accessing sexual reproductive health rights information, services and commodities among adolescent girls from rural settings of Kenya, is twice compared to girls from semi urban and urban settings. These challenges include individual factors (feelings of shame, lack of information, and fear of being judged) parental factors, healthcare worker and health institution factors, teacher/educators' factors, and broader contextual factors such as culture, religion, poverty, and illiteracy.
Roughly, one million Kenyan adolescents, miss school each month because they are unable to afford menstrual products. As a result, some girls share sanitary products while some engage in transactional sex in order to secure sanitary products, fueling cycles of exploitation within the Lake Region.
Lake Region, a fisher fork community in Western Kenya, consisting of Siaya, Kisumu, Homabay and Migori Counties, is largely impacted with high rates of Teenage Pregnancies, Teenage Marriages, Child Prostitution, Sexual and Gender Based Violations, New Cases of HIV infections, Child Labour, School Dropout and Bilharzia (as underlying factor), resulting from lack of access to sexual reproductive health and rights among 9-15 adolescent girls, that hugely impede their achieving educational and life goals.
Contact name
Mercy Odondo
Phone
0702273814
Email
mercyodondo0@gmail.com
Website
https://linktr.ee/genderdialogues_gd
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