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Many, maybe most, prepubescent and adolescent girls living in rural areas have not been taught about reproductive functions of males and females and when they begin their menstruation cycles, they are totally surprised, alarmed, and often horrified from misinformation and superstition.
In early childhood, some girls learn that talking about menstruation is shameful. Lacking knowledge about what is happening to them when they begin bleeding often causes them to miss school or completely drop out.
Most girls living in rural areas of Tanzania are unable to afford or access proper menstrual products. Girls and women rely on crude, improvised materials like scraps of old clothing, pieces of foam mattress, toilet paper, leaves, and banana fibres to manage their menstruation – all of which are unsanitary, ineffective, and uncomfortable. This is not a healthy “solution” and promotes sickness and disease.
The Tanzanian government bears a financial burden of girls’ lack of education in several ways:
Increased sickness, inability to work, hospitalization, and sometimes chronic disease are costs directly or indirectly cast upon the government to take care of these underprivileged, undereducated, and impoverished young citizens.
AYMO was founded to help these young ladies. Menstruation should not be a barrier for any woman, anywhere. Women are the backbone of our societies and deserve safe, healthy, and dignified solutions for managing their natural body functions. Education gives them freedom to rise to their dreams and achieve true potential without succumbing to superstition or sickness. To achieve these lifegoals for women of all ages, AYMO proposes to provide education for schoolgirls and out-of-school women, free of participant cost, to educate and train them on menstrual health health education
In early childhood, some girls learn that talking about menstruation is shameful. Lacking knowledge about what is happening to them when they begin bleeding often causes them to miss school or completely drop out.
Most girls living in rural areas of Tanzania are unable to afford or access proper menstrual products. Girls and women rely on crude, improvised materials like scraps of old clothing, pieces of foam mattress, toilet paper, leaves, and banana fibres to manage their menstruation – all of which are unsanitary, ineffective, and uncomfortable. This is not a healthy “solution” and promotes sickness and disease.
The Tanzanian government bears a financial burden of girls’ lack of education in several ways:
Increased sickness, inability to work, hospitalization, and sometimes chronic disease are costs directly or indirectly cast upon the government to take care of these underprivileged, undereducated, and impoverished young citizens.
AYMO was founded to help these young ladies. Menstruation should not be a barrier for any woman, anywhere. Women are the backbone of our societies and deserve safe, healthy, and dignified solutions for managing their natural body functions. Education gives them freedom to rise to their dreams and achieve true potential without succumbing to superstition or sickness. To achieve these lifegoals for women of all ages, AYMO proposes to provide education for schoolgirls and out-of-school women, free of participant cost, to educate and train them on menstrual health health education
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