MY TIME PROJECT is a project which is going to aim at providing over 340 girls with sanitary pads, health rights education, and counseling every month.
The Project will be run on a monthly program which will be led by 2 nurses and 3 community health workers. The program will run in 6 different locations of our village, on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sunday of every month for 100+ girls each of these Sundays.
In Uganda, drop-out rates are high for rural girls. Up to 80% of girls entering primary school will never complete their primary education. Uganda has the highest teen pregnancy rate in sub-Saharan Africa with over 30% of Ugandan girls having their first baby by the time they are 18.
HIV infection rates are 9 times higher in girls than boys the same age and Uganda has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world, 25% of which are from unsafe abortions.
