AFRIpads in the media

9 November 2010 | Sister Hope

Awesome News!: Sister Hope donates AFRIpads Menstrual Kits to girls in Uganda with every purchase of their one-of-a-kind African print handbags. Sarah Vandiver, the founder, blogs about their recent donation to the girls at Ndegeya School for Special Needs in Masaka District, Uganda. www.sishope.com

6 November 2010 | Barlcays Bank Donates AFRIpads

As part of Barclays Bank country-wide outreach day, the Barclays Masaka Branch donated AFRIpads to the female inmates at the Masaka Prison. AFRIpads' outreach workers participated in the eventand lead a menstrual hygiene promotion session.

19 October 2010 | Plan Uganda "Because I am a Girl" Report Launch @ Hotel Africana, Kampala

AFRIpads attended the report launch of Plan Uganda’s “Because I am a Girl” campaign. Keynote speakers addressed "menstruation management" as a critical issue to achieving gender parity in Ugandan schools.

18 October 2010 | Activia Solidaria @ AFRIpads Workshop, Masaka

Members of the Spanish non-profit organization, Activia Solidaria, made a special visit to Masaka to visit the AFRIpads workshop.

16 October 2010 | Health(e) Foundation Uganda Symposium 2010 @ Hotel Africana, Kampala

AFRIpads promoted at the symposium, which gathered over 600 Ugandan healthcare workers who have received training from the foundation to discuss “The big 5 in HIV/AIDs & TB care”.

8 October 2010 | BBC: Ugandan library gets the country reading (Mike Wooldridge)

AFRIpads received 30 seconds of fame on the BBC News in a segment on the Kitengesa Community Library (Uganda), as the AFRIpads workshop is located in the former library building.
BBC NEWS AFRICA

29 September 2010 | Poetry reading for AFRIpads @ Bowery Poetry Club, New York City

AFRIpads would like to extend warm thanks to Pat Duffy and colleagues for organizing this fundraising event.

21 September 2010 | Gender Task Force meeting @ Ministry of Education, Kampala

AFRIpads attended Uganda's Gender Task Force meeting with the Ministry of Education & Sports (MoES), UNICEF, Girl Education Movement (GEM), and other stakeholders to discuss progress on key gender issues in Uganda.

24 July 2010 | Blog: Uganda (Amber Commer)

Afri-Pads: Amber, a Peace Corps Volunteer based in Masaka, has come on board as a freelance AFRIpads promoter at secondary schools in the area. In her recent blog entry, Amber shares her recent experiences.
Blog Amber Commer

19 July 2010 | Blog: 8,246 Miles to Uganda: The adventure of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda (Sara McEachern)

Afri-Pads Workshop: Sara shares her experiences and pictures after promoting AFRIpads at a secondary school in Rakai District, southwestern Uganda.
Peace Core Volunteers in Uganda

25 May 2010 | Scientific American: "You're going to bleed. Period." Educating girls about menstruation (Jesse Bering)

A psychological look into how adolescent girls confront the onset of menarche.
Scientific American

29 January 2010 | BBC News: Sanitary pads help Ghana girls go to school

Schoolgirl absenteeism in Ghana could be cut by half by providing free sanitary towels, according to a study by a research team at Oxford University. BBC NEWS

25 January 2010 | Financial Times: A learning curve (Sarah Murray)

Resolving a taboo: One of the major issues in developing countries is to ensure that girls – and not just boys – get an education.
Imperial College London

4 September 2009 | New York Times: Pssst. Does menstruation keep girls out of school? (Nicholas D. Kristof)

In recent years, there also have been suggestions that one of the reasons girls in Africa and Asia miss school is that they have trouble managing menstruation.
The New York Times-opinion pages

17 July 2009 | Blog: Alison's Uganda Experience: (Alison Hemberger)

Ethiopia … No Wait … Maxi-Pads: Alison, a Foundation for Sustainable Development intern in Masaka, blogs about her visit to the AFRIpads workshop.
Alison’s Uganda Experience

25 March 2008 | Reproductive Health Reality Check: In Africa, menstruation can be a curse (Masimba Biriwasha)

Menstruation is perhaps one of the most regular individual female experiences, but in sub-Saharan Africa, the experience impacts general society negatively due to the absence of products required by women and girls to cope with menstrual flow.
Masimba Biriwasha's blog