On the 21st of May, 2021, the YWLN embark on a 5 day tour to the Northern Zone to educate, empower and support young girls of menstruation age. The YWLN team ended the Northern Zone Tour project by celebrating the World Menstrual hygiene day with girls from Hianwawu Community in […]
We have introduced the Fistula Prevention project this year and in May, we intend to create awareness on social media about it and it prevention methods. Each year between 50 000 to 100 000 women worldwide are affected by obstetric fistula, an abnormal opening between a woman’s genital tract and […]
“We live in a continent where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.” ― Patrick L.O. Lumumba Help us impact knowledge on menstruation […]
Girls from Adab Islamic happily displaying their pads The Young Women Leaders Network (YWLN) is embarking on a menstrual hygiene project dubbed ‘gift a sanitary pad to the girl-child’. The year-long project seeks to distribute free sanitary pads to 10,000 girls aged 10-15 in the sub-urban and rural schools and train them […]