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Organised by WaterAid CanadaGender-responsive menstrual health management is a critical pathway to inclusive access to water, sanitation and hygiene. Join our matching campaign this February to double your impact in helping women and girls in Liberia meet their full potential.
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Visit the charity's profileHerWASH is a four-year initiative being implemented in Burkina Faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Pakistan. This project will provide quality, gender-responsive, and age-appropriate menstrual health and hygiene education in vulnerable communities across the four countries.
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Menstruation signals a growth into adolescence while also influencing the ability of women and adolescent girls to thrive in their daily lives. Without the knowledge, services, and environment to meet their menstrual needs, women and adolescent girls around the world face significant barriers in accessing proper education and living lives of dignity and respect. These barriers to access can lead to a great lack of income-generating opportunities, leaving many girls and women stuck in a cycle of missed opportunity and poverty.
We used to wear disposable pads that you can buy from town, but they are expensive, and those who can't make their own pads or afford disposable ones would just use their knickers. When girls didn't know how to make pads they would miss school, maybe for three days. My mother really appreciates that I told her how to make pads, then she told me it's good to send children to school." - Esther, 15, seen in video sewing pads with mom.
Menstrual health is a largely overlooked aspect of development; however, it is a critical pathway for gender equality and female empowerment, especially through integration with water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions. Addressing menstrual health enables women and girls to better deal with menstruation, while also acting as a starting point for discussions around Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).
The HerWASH program is working to provide quality, gender-responsive, and age-appropriate menstrual health and hygiene education in vulnerable communities across Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso.
This February, we are asking you to join us in support of the HerWASH program in Liberia. A generous donor has pledged to match all donations given in the month of February up to $30,000. This means that you will double your impact in supporting women and girls participate in their daily life while menstruating without discrimination.
Nitsuh (15, left) and Belayush (teacher, 24), member of the school's Gender group
My aspirations for female students in the school is to be educated, then be independent; to not only help their families but also their country and that we can do whatever men can do. - Belayush
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