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One Girl. Overview Are focussed on empowering women and girls so that they can create and lead change in their communities. One Girl believes that education and economic empowerment are vital when it comes to tackling the issues that women and girls face in Sierra Leone. One Girl currently have two projects we’re working on, Back to School Scholarships and LaunchPad. Back to School Scholarships One Girl provides education scholarships to girls living in rural communities in Sierra Leone. Back to School scholarships provide a girl with everything she needs to attend school. Her school fees will be paid in full, plus she’ll receive a school uniform, school books and stationary. One Girl also includes a medical contingency in case she gets sick! LaunchPad A majority of women in Sierra Leone don’t have a hygienic way of managing their period. Women may use five pairs of underwear, kitchen sponges, old cloth and other makeshift materials to manage their menstruation. Due to the unhygienic nature of these materials, women experience rashes, sores and bruising on the inside of their thighs. They’re also exposed to a variety of diseases every single month. Beyond the hygiene issues, using cloth and other materials to manage your period is also embarrassing. Girls in developing countries will miss out on up to one week of school EVERY month because they’ve got their period. This usually results in them falling behind in class, and eventually dropping out. In many developing countries, menstruation equals inequality. To address this issue, we’ve created LaunchPad : A social enterprise that sells low cost, eco-friendly sanitary pads to women and girls in Sierra Leone. |
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