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WHAT is the “my time Project”?
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.

Challenge
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. Background
“During my period, I mostly use rags and sometimes toilet paper, but I am most comfortable when I just do not go to school,” Annette Mirembe of Denis Katumba Primary School in Mityana district says.
“I cannot concentrate in class when I am in my periods because I keep wondering if my dress is soiled,” says Justine of Fairway Primary School in Mityana district.
Similarly, Susan Namazzi of Public Primary School, also in Mityana district, says at the onset of her period, she carries a sweater and wraps it around her waist to avoid the stares whenever she gets up. She says boys once teased her friend when she soiled her uniform, taunting her that she had slaughtered a hen.